Spiritual Sayings From Various Persons

by allinspiration.com

What do many famous persons have to say about spirituality, spiritual growth and the spiritual life? Check out these spiritual sayings and quotes.

“There is a spiritual hunger in the world today – and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.”
– Adlai E. Stevenson

“The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.”
– Aiden Wilson Tozer

“At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I’m being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.”
– Alanis Morissette

“Down the road, I’ll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.”
– Alanis Morissette

“When I’m off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It’s a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything – going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.”
– Alanis Morissette

“It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
– Albert Camus

“By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.”
– Alice Walker

“Life – a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.”
– Andrew Cohen

“Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.”
– Arthur Erickson

“Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.”
– Arthur Helps

“My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.”
– Barack Obama

“In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.”
– Barbara de Angelis

“Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.”
– Barbara Kingsolver

“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.”
– Billy Corgan

“I’ve always been spiritual but I’ve never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It’s hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want… and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.”
– Billy Corgan

“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.”
– Billy Graham

“New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment… a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.”
– Brendan Behan

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
– Buddha

“Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.”
– Calvin Coolidge

“Although I’m an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.”
– Camille Paglia

“As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz’s spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.”
– Camille Paglia

“The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.”
– Carl Jung

“My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.”
– Carlos Santana

“I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.”
– Cat Stevens

“The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It’s always been there. But there’s also an incredible passion connected to it; it’s not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.”
– Cat Stevens

“The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquility is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.”
– Chanakya

“Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”
– Charles Bukowski

“A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it’s a spiritual fight.”
– Charles Stanley

“Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.”
– Charles William Eliot

“I’m not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.”
– Christina Aguilera

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