Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

Mahatma Gandhi

Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.

Mahatma Gandhi

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

Mahatma Gandhi

The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within.

Mahatma Gandhi

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

Mahatma Gandhi

A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.

Mahatma Gandhi

A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.

Mahatma Gandhi

Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

Mahatma Gandhi

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.

John C. Maxwell

There is a real hunger for spiritual things in today's culture; people are seeking something spiritual, something beyond themselves. That's the good news. The bad news is people are not getting it at church because the church is singing songs, preaching messages, doing programs, and taking offerings for itself.

John C. Maxwell

When you find your spiritual gift, God will give you an opportunity to use it.

Johannes Tauler

He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbors.

Jean Cocteau

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

George Carlin

We use up words like spiritual so fast in this culture. Twenty years ago spiritual had a distinct meaning. But now there's a lot of jack-off thinkers who just love to talk about the spiritual. And there is a lot of bogus - is bogosity a word? It should be - a lot of bogosity in these spiritual seekers. So you have to find another way to express it. I just call it how I fit.

Gene Robinson

It seems to me, then, that vulnerability and and self-disclosure are at the heart of what we understand about the nature of God. And the reason I believe gay and lesbian people are spiritual people is that we too have participated in vulnerability and self-disclosure, especially in the process of coming-out. When someone shares with you who they really, really are, it is a special offering. To do so when it risks rejection is a profound, holy gift.

Garth Stein

I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid package that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What's wrong with that idea?

Gail Devers

Whenever faced with a challenge, I dig deep within myself and summon my spiritual and physical forces. This gives me the focus, determination, perseverance, and support I need to succeed.

Frederick Douglass

[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.

Frederick Buechner

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

Frederick Buechner

Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.

Frank Waters

The air they breathe, being a living element with both physical and psychical properties, carries a subtle vital energy. This in India is named by the Sanskrit word prana; in Tibet it is called sugs, in Aikido, Japan, ki, and in China, chi. By controlling its circulation throughout the body, man is able to attain spiritual enlightenment or illumination.

Frank Warren

Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.

Fernando Pessoa

In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.

Ray Charles

When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.

Ravi Zacharias

Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.

Tom Hiddleston

If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in this world?' - the Loki in 'Avengers' is, 'I know exactly who I am, and I'm going to make this world belong to me.'