Spiritual Quotes - Page 38

• Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Perception, Enlightenment

  4 Copy quote

• We're using gradients of light as an auric measurement, a quantified auric measurement of the ascension of consciousness from the relatively sensorial, material perceptions of existence to the more refined spiritual perceptions of existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Perception, Ascension

  5 Copy quote

• Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.

  Sidney Hook

  Religious, Humility, Understanding

  9 Copy quote

• To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction with which we hold it can be perilous and destructive. Religious beliefs give a spurious spiritual dimension to tribal enmities.

  Peter Medawar

  Religious, Giving, Atheism

  4 Copy quote

• It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance of the superstitious observances that go with it, that we should want others to share it - and the only certain way to cause a religious belief to be held by everyone is to liquidate nonbelievers. The price in blood and tears that mankind generally has had to pay for the comfort and spiritual refreshment that religion has brought to a few has been too great to justify our entrusting moral accountancy to religious belief.

  Peter Medawar

  Religious, Blood, Tears

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men in foreign lands have never been presented. They bow their knees and say they are 'miserable sinners,' and their hearts rankle with abominable pride. Poor infatuated fools! Their servility is real and their insolence is real but their king is a phantom and their palace is a dream.

  William Winwood Reade

  Christian, Dream, Kings

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.533

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would be threatened in the long run by a departure from governmental neutrality in spiritual matters.

  Sargent Shriver

  Running, Religious, Believe

  16 Copy quote

• Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant spaces in their heads with soul. Which explains how it is that the less knowledge they have, the more religion.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Space, People, Soul

  19 Copy quote

• This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Wife, Taught, Doctrine

  29 Copy quote

• I've never been a religious person. I've been a spiritual person since I was about 15, 16, when I was first introduced to Psilocybin [mushrooms]. That really opened me up to thinking about the universe in a different way, and coming to significant realizations about my connection to something greater than me.

  Macklemore

  Religious, Thinking, Mushrooms

  "Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Find Clarity". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2012.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• We all, if we go with ego I go or you go ego thing, it's got to be free from all of that and just roll, because music is a spiritual thing. It's got to come through us and can't just hit us. It's got to be part of us that comes through us and goes to the people, and then they come back to us and give us more spirit.

  Dr. John

  People, Giving, Ego

  Source: www.pbs.org

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not a practicing kabbalist. I'm not a spiritual master. I'm not a rabbi. I don't - but it's part of who I am.

  John Zorn

  Who I Am, Masters, Rabbi

  "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 3, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government demands on all levels - intellectual, moral, historical, and spiritual level. We are supposed to be engaged and give directions to our elected employees.

  Ted Nugent

  Jobs, Animal, Thinking

  "More Than 10 Questions with Ted Nugent. The Man, His Views, His Music & The New Album ShutUp & Jam". Interview with Mark Capuano, music.allaccess.com. July 23, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our enemy is more aware than we are of the spiritual possibilities that depend upon obedience.

  Amy Carmichael

  Enemy, Obedience, Possibility

  Amy Carmichael (2002). “Gold Cord: The Story of a Fellowship”, CLC Publications

  94 Copy quote

  Show source

• [The 4 spiritual laws and sinner's prayer] is not the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that methodology and envangelism has done more to hurt this country than every heresy introduced by every cult combined. Millions of people in this country whose lives have never been changed believed themselves born again because we have so reduced the gospel of Jesus Christ that it means now nothing more than simple decision that will only take five minutes of your time.

  Paul Washer

  Country, Jesus, Hurt

  84 Copy quote

• ...our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development.
  These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges.
  Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice.
  And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life.

  Caroline Myss

  Letting Go, Moving, Mean

  68 Copy quote

• The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Loss, Victory, Battle

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.108, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The spiritual consciousness is never deceived

  Billy Meier

  Consciousness, Deceived

  12 Copy quote

• As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.

  Ansel Adams

  Emotional, Lakes, Sea

  8 Copy quote

• National Socialism would have every German decide for himself on spiritual questions, just as in the days of Frederick the Great.  The National Socialist state gives to the church what belongs to the church, and to the state what belongs to the state.

  Rudolf Hess

  Giving, Church, Socialism

  69 Copy quote

• Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Self, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Selfish, Attachment, Action

  Eknath Easwaran (2000). “A More Ardent Fire”, p.111, Nilgiri Press

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm all for lifestyle evangelism, but I'm also in favor of intentionality, where we seek out opportunities for spiritual conversations and are equipped to explain the gospel and why we believe it.

  Lee Strobel

  Believe, Opportunity, Favors

  18 Copy quote

• The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Religious, Struggle

  14 Copy quote

• God does not give His grace as He gives His sunshine - pouring it out on all alike. He discriminates in spiritual blessings. He gives strength according to our need. His eye is ever on us in tender, watchful love, and what we need He supplies.

  J.R. Miller

  Eye, Sunshine, Blessing

  5 Copy quote