Spirituality Quotations

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality.

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

I also work with the spirituality of people.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'

Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general... I feel like I'm still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Let the spirit of adventure set the tone.

She wasn't the least bit depressed. She was talking about going to Mexico. She had a Mexican boyfriend at the time. I forget his name. This was the first house she ever owned. She was going to buy some furniture. She was in very good spirits that day of course, the champagne and vodka helped.

In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.

I think the time has come for us to embrace spirituality as a domain of awareness where we all experience our universal nature, where we all experience our inseparability, where we all know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.

When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself.

My driving force is spirituality.

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

We talked a lot about spiritual things. He would always say something that would make me think, and I thank God for that.

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

When they make an acquisition of another spirits competitor, they can leverage their infrastructure and marketing and merge central office functions. In this type of instance it can make sense to have related diversification.

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Having enjoyed the wide world of heavenly sense pleasures they return to the mortal world upon exhaustion of their good Karma.

Keep yourself clean and bright. You are the windows through which you must view the world.

My spirits are down after playing like that.

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.

It always boosts your spirits. With a season like we had this year and last year it is easy to get discouraged, but to know the people admire what you do and tell you to keep your head up, it's always good.

We know that this weekend is going to be a tough one for us. Last year we played them twice and the difference between the two teams in two matches was one goal. Eastern Washington is a hard-working, energetic team that is coming off a great result with BYU so there spirits are going to be high. They'll attempt to pressure us and really look to counter-attack on our play,

You absorb a few losses in a row and spirits start to sink a little bit. Body language starts to change, so the kids left there happy and have, I hope, a little bit better sense of how to play a complete game.

When the audience and the performers become one, it is almost nearly divine, where this oneness can actually meet in some, not physical place, but in some spiritual place, in the middle, not the performers performing, not the audience receiving, but all of a sudden that contact is made and it becomes wonderful.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.

Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.

Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

Religion to me is when man gets ahold of spirituality: "My god is right, yours is wrong." Religion to me is the human condition. "If you're a Muslim, you can't be a Christian." That to me is religion.

The one who count are those persons who-though they may be of little renown-respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.

I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.

"I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning," said the Master.

"My former master taught me to accept birth and death." "Then what have you come to me for?" asked the master. "To learn to accept what lies in between."

Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.

You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

That I am not my experiences is very obvious. I am the one who is having those experiences. Spirituality has nothing to do with experience.

Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality is a higher law.

Pay attention to the timeless core of your being.

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.

Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

Have the depth of faith to regard everything as a source for creating happiness and value.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit.