Famous Quotes & Sayings

James E. Faust

The only way to acquire spiritual knowledge and keep It burning brightly is to be humble, prayerful, and to strive diligently to keep all of the commandments.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.

Janet Erskine Stuart

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

Janeane Garofalo

Leaving your ears open to the suggestions of others only closes the mind's eye, thereby creating a type of spiritual glaucoma.

Jane Porter

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

Jane Roberts

The flesh is as spiritual as the soul, and the soul is as natural as the flesh.

Jane Roberts

You create your own reality.

Jane Anderson

I'm a very pragmatic soul. I'm part of the business and I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to being an over-believer in spiritual or in paranormal matters.

Ethan Hawke

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.

Ernest Renan

A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.

Cassandra Clare

Clary: What are you doing here, anyway? Jace: 'Here' as in your bedroom or 'here' as in the great spiritual question of our purpose here on this planet? If you're asking whether it's all just a cosmic coincidence or there's a greater metaethical purpose to life, well, that's a puzzler for the ages. I mean, simple ontological reductionism is clearly a fallacious argument, but- Clary: I'm going to bed.

Caroline Knapp

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

Evander Holyfield

I lived in a project and...didn't have a good education. But...I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.

Evangeline Lilly

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.

Jenny McCarthy

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

Jenny McCarthy

I figured out something spiritual. Billboard this: 'Life is supposed to be fun!'

Grant Morrison

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Gilles Marini

Bora Bora is peaceful and quiet, but fun, so full of cool activities and more; spiritual to the core, and you leave with fully recharged batteries.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable....

Fred Rogers

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

Harold B. Lee

The spirit, if it could be seen with mortal eyes, would appear in bodily shape like a full-grown person with individual endowments that make it a counter-part of the body in which it [resides,] "that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is spiritual." (D&C 77:2.) It was that which came from God and entered at birth into the infant body prepared by its mortal parents. The spirit was of the "Lord from heaven." The physical body was "of the earth, earthy," (2 Cor. 15:47) or in other words, composed of the elements of which the things in the physical world are composed.

Haile Selassie

There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare

Haile Selassie

It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essen- tial to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.

Haile Selassie

Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.

Haile Selassie

Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success. Knowing that material & spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. It is only when a people strike an even balance between scientific progress & spiritual & moral advancement that it can be said to possess a wholly perfect and complete personality and not a lopsided one.

Guru Nanak

Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.

Jim Butcher

I do not need the written code of a spiritual belief to act like a decent human being.

George Herbert

Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

Jean de la Bruyere

What can be more discouraging to a man than to doubt if his soul be material, like a stone or a reptile, and subject to corruption like the vilest creatures? And does it not prove much more strength of mind and grandeur to be able to conceive the idea of a Being superior to all other beings, by whom and for whom all things were made ; of a Being absolutely perfect and pure, without beginning or end, of whom our soul is the image, and of whom, if I may say so, it is a part, because it is spiritual and immortal?

Jean de la Bruyere

The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself.