Spiritual Quotes - Page 33

• To be spiritual is to be genuine in everything you say and do, come what may.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  May, Genuine

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I wouldn't even like to begin to define God - I have absolutely no idea. But what I feel, and what touches me, is a great spiritual power, which I don't even want to name. If I had to, I would say God, because I don't know any other.

  Jane Goodall

  Ideas, Names, Want

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2010.

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• Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to which the artist has drunk from the well of life may not guarantee success, it must surely improve the quality of his/her work.

  Millard Sheets

  Art, Drunk, Quality

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• Faithfully caring for the poor and needy is a reflection of spiritual maturity.

  Dean M. Davies

  Caring, Maturity, Reflection

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• SPIRITUAL WARRIORS is a terrific voyage. A memorable journey through the light and dark of our lives and ultimately to hope. I loved it.

  Victor Salva

  Memorable, Warrior, Dark

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• We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one of the spiritual benefits of a wilderness experience. ... [T]o know the wilderness is to know a profound humility, to recognize one's littleness, to sense dependence and interdependence, indebtedness and responsibility.

  Howard Zahniser

  Humility, Responsibility, Profound

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• One of the reasons I believe the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States of America is that the policy of our Government has been to ask the Israelis, and demand it with pressure, not to retaliate in a significant way against the terrorist strikes that have been launched against them.

  James Inhofe

  Believe, Government, Doors

  Congressional Record, Part 9, June 4, 2014.

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• What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

  George Eliot

  Men, Crowns, Virtue

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.38

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• Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Needs, Sin, Illness

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2010). “The Academic Sermons (The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation, Volume 11)”, p.47, CUA Press

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• In the good times of Dada, we detested polished works, the distracted air of spiritual struggle, the titans, and we rejected them with all out being.

  Hans Arp

  Struggle, Air, Good Times

  "Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs". Book by Hans Arp, p. 307, 1966.

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• We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government; and, lastly, a pure and spiritual religion, the deep fountain of generous enthusiasm, the mighty spring of bold and lofty designs, the great sanctuary of moral power.

  Edward Everett

  Art, Spring, Government

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Americans ... do not naturally apply the term "bourgeois" to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter. They do like to call themselves middle class, but that does not carry with it any determinate spiritual content. ... The term "middle class" does not have any of the many opposites that bourgeois has, such as aristocrat, saint, hero, or artist - all good.

  Allan Bloom

  Hero, Artist, Opposites

  "The Closing of the American Mind". Book by Allan Bloom, 1987.

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• If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Forever, Sake

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• Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Morning, Crazy, Book

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• The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

  John Milton

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.133

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• One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status ... What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Drunk

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 27, (p. 283), 1949.

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• One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or intellect, and that the element of vitality which is present in "spirit" was separated and interpreted as an independent biological force. Man was divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality. The middle ground between them, the spiritual soul, in which vitality and intentionality are united, was dropped.

  Paul Tillich

  Independent, Men, Soul

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different. The film makes pretty clear that quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings.

  Jennifer Beals

  Teaching, Thinking, Different

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2007.

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• Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism exhorts him to do so in the name of his practical attributes. Formerly man was divine because he had been able to acquire the concept of justice, the idea of law, the sense of God; today he is divine because he has been able to create equipment which makes him the master of matter.

  Julien Benda

  Men, Law, Names

  Julien Benda, Roger Kimball (2017). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.57, Routledge

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• Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work.

  Max Beckmann

  Beautiful, Expression, Space

  "On my Painting". Max Beckmann's Speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art', London, July 21, 1938.

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• Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Abortion, Moral, Constitution

  "January 22, 1973: Roe v. Wade", www.cnn.com. March 10, 2003.

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• There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization. Five social diseases surround them, even in early childhood. There is the decline in fitness due to modern methods of locomotion; the decline in initiative due to the widespread disease of spectatoritis; the decline in care and skill due to the weakened tradition of craftsmanship; the decline in self-discipline due to the ever-present availability of tranquilizers and stimulants, and the decline in compassion, which William Temple called "spiritual death.

  Kurt Hahn

  Compassion, Self, Civilization

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• Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.

  William James

  Children, Maturity, Essence

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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• Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

  George Orwell

  Poverty

  George Orwell (1969). “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a discovery which in its importance to the future of human knowledge dwarfs the divinations of Newton and Galileo , even the discovery of the inductive and experimental method in Science was not more momentous.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Discovery, Effort, Training

  Sri Aurobindo (2006). “The Upanishads--II : Kena And Other Upanishads”, p.355, SriAurobindoAshram Publication Dept

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