Spiritual Quotes And Sayings – For Growth And Inspiration
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“Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.”
– James Brown
“It appears that America’s anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men‘s movement which may become the foundation for a desperately needed national spiritual awakening.”
– Jerry Falwell
“For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.”
– Jerry Garcia
“For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.”
– Jimmy Carter
“One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.”
– Jimmy Carter
“There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.”
– Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.”
– John Foster Dulles
“Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.”
– John Milton
“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.”
– John Muir
“We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.”
– John Naisbitt
“By one hour’s intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than a day’s or a week’s converse with the best of men, or the most.”
– John Newton
“The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.”
– John Owen
“Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.”
– Joseph Campbell
“When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.”
– Joseph Campbell
“The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life – mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.”
– Julius Erving
“Spirituality comes from questioning everything but at the same time accepting everything. You can even be spiritual watching TV. When the ad comes on and says, “Don’t hate me because I am beautiful,” question that.”
– K. D. Lang
“Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected.”
– Kabbalah
“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there is no ‘beyond’ to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road.”
– L. Ron Hubbard
“The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.”
– Larry Dossey
“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”
– Leo F. Buscaglia
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven
“Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson
“The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.”
– M. Scott Peck
“Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.”
– M. Scott Peck
“The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.”
– Margaret Lee Runbeck
“The spiritual path — is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it.”
– Marianne Williamson
“The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.”
– Marianne Williamson
“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.”
– Marianne Williamson
“Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.”
– Marianne Williamson
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