BY STEVE MUELLER LAST EDIT: JUNE 29TH, 2017
With each trip around the sun, more and more people come to the realization that there’s somehow more to life than meets the eye. It is an awakening process that leaves many of us wondering what the true nature of reality is all about. Part of this ongoing transition is that people no longer are satisfied with living a purely materialistic lifestyle based on superficial possession. Instead, they actively seek to enrich their life by adopting a more spiritual worldview. As a result of feeling connected to a source greater than themselves, many embark on a spiritual journey in order to find themselves and to seek God. They begin realizing that they are so much more than just this body. Instead of being defined by their human body, they come to the conclusion that they are spiritual beings inhabiting physical bodies. To celebrate the life-transforming influence of living a spiritual life, we’ve created the following collection of enlightening spiritual quotes.
For many of us, there comes a time in life that slowly initiates the – sometimes painful – awakening to a higher reality. If you’ve already lived through this stage, you may know that your former life somehow began feeling dull and purposeless. Even more so, many of the things you once enjoyed pursuing somehow began to feel shallow and imbalanced.
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, man
cannot live without a spiritual life.”
Buddha
As awkward as this initiation of the awakening process may feel, it nurtures our desire to journey on the spiritual path. In the beginning, living a more spiritual life and surrendering more and more to God may not always be easy.
Enjoy the following collection of transformative spiritual quotes.
However, as time progresses, it will make your life a lot more worthwhile in a very beautiful way. In fact, almost all who’ve ever embarked on the spiritual path wouldn’t want to miss the many benefits that come with it. Even more so, most shrug at the thought of having to return to their old ways of living.
85 Enlightening Spiritual Quotes
Spirituality can marvelously enrich your entire life. It frees you from the never-ending rat race of ever pursuing more. It also helps you to fill that awkward hole in your heart that no material possession, relationship, or worldly experience could ever feel (for too long). Let’s have a look at these transformative spiritual quotes that celebrate the marvels, wonders, and joys of living a spiritual life.
Here is our collection of powerful spiritual quotes
1.
“We are not human beings having a spiritual
experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.“
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
2.
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in
this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for
another world.“
C.S. Lewis
3.
“It does not matter how long you are spending on
the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have
received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that
matters“
Amit Ray
4.
“I realized then that even though I was a tiny
speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without
purpose.“
R.J. Anderson
5.
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!“
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6.
“We may speak about a place where there are no
tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven.
The beauty of heaven is seeing God.“
Max Lucado
7.
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.“
Francis of Assisi
8.
“Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the
cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can’t
name the tune.“
Deepak Chopra
9.
“One of the most spiritual things you can do is
embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, ‘I love you’,
‘I’m sorry’, ‘I appreciate you’, ‘I’m proud of you’… whatever you’re feeling.
Send random texts, write a cute note, embrace your truth and share it… cause a
smile today for someone else… and give plenty of hugs.“
Steve Maraboli
10.
“Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those
ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had
been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours
collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were
alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries — but not until now had
I realized how full of them the earth was.“
Ransom Riggs
11.
“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the
courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with
their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite
a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it…“
Wilferd Peterson
12.
“Age has no reality except in the physical world.
The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner
lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and
vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not
the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.“
Gabriel García Márquez
13.
“There is a LIGHT in this world. A healing spirit
more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of
this force when there is suffering, and too much pain. Then suddenly, the
spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and
answer in extraordinary ways.“
Richard Attenborough
14.
“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only
limitations are those you set upon yourself.“
Roy T. Bennett
15.
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when
he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure
of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this
mystery each day.“
Albert Einstein
16.
“Knock, and He’ll open the door. Vanish, And He’ll
make you shine like the sun. Fall, and He’ll raise you to the heavens. Become
nothing, and He’ll turn you into everything.“
Jalaluddin Rumi
17.
“The first peace, which is the most important, is
that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their
relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they
realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its
center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.“
Black Elk
18.
“How hurtful it can be to deny one’s true self and
live a life of lies just to appease others.“
June Ahern
19.
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the
illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are
able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.“
Albert Einstein
20.
“The great thing to remember is that though our
feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.“
C.S. Lewis
21.
“Believe something and the Universe is on its way
to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed,
other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works?“
Diane Duane
22.
“Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One
who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart,
nothing else compares to such a prayer.“
Kripalvanandji
23.
“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or
diplomas but for scars.“
Elbert Hubbard
24.
“Don’t ever discount the wonder of your tears. They
can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words
the heart can speak.“
William Paul Young
25.
“I have faith that God will show you the answer. But
you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize
what God wants you to do. That’s how it often is. God’s voice is usually
nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it.
But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as
loud as a church bell.“
Nicholas Sparks
26.
“Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and
let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited,
disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your
relationship is always alive and changing.“
Brian L. Weiss
27.
“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we
withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our
solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost
self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find
ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for
our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.“
Hermann Hesse
28.
“It takes three to make love, not two: you, your
spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in
one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find
there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty, life is unfinished.“
Fulton J. Sheen
29.
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.“
William W. Purkey
30.
“And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly
all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution,
classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find
something other than God which will make him happy.“
C.S. Lewis
31.
“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.“
Carl Sagan
32.
“Throughout life people will make you mad,
disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause
hate in your heart will consume you too.“
Will Smith
33.
“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for
all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we
would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of
self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss
teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts,
to make a better person of a good one.“
Dean Koontz
34.
“When you connect to the silence within you, that
is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.“
Stephen Richards
35.
“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less
judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.“
Roy T. Bennett
36.
“What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become
is your gift to God.“
Hans Urs von Balthasar
37.
“I challenge every one of you who can hear me to
rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a
child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?“
Gordon B. Hinckley
38.
“Have you ever met someone for the first time, but
in your heart, you feel as if you’ve met them before?“
JoAnne Kenrick
39.
“A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him
with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities“
Jeremy Aldana
40.
“No woman wants to be in submission to a man who
isn’t in submission to God!“
T.D. Jakes
41.
“God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you
can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.“
Max Lucado
42.
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do
the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.“
C.S. Lewis
43.
“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of
God.“
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
44.
“We are an impossibility in an impossible
universe.“
Ray Bradbury
45.
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart
without words than words without a heart.“
Mahatma Gandhi
46.
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love,
belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope,
empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our
purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the
path.“
Brené Brown
47.
“No, no, it’s not all random, if it really was all
random, the universe would abandon us completely. And the universe doesn’t. It
takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can’t see.“
R.J. Palacio
48.
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a
known God.“
Corrie ten Boom
49.
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match
the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.“
Joseph Campbell
50.
“Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember
your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the
freedom.“
Amit Ray
51.
“With or without a belief in God, all kisses are
metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding“
Saul Williams
52.
“Inside us there is something that has no name,
that something is what we are.“
José Saramago
53.
“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very
poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water
passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul“
Victor Hugo
54.
“Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the
suffering in the world. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that
happens.“
E.A. Bucchianeri
55.
“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers
to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It
is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.“
C.S. Lewis
56.
“I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself
supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the
laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys,
moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in
the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life.
And so how can I ever say that I am alone?“
C. JoyBell C.
57.
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the
words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast
of a trumpet.“
Ralph Waldo Emerson
58.
“I choose gentleness… Nothing is won by force. I
choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench
my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of
myself.“
Max Lucado
59.
“Human spirit is the ability to face the
uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that
problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And
it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition. By the year 2050,
when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious
times.“
Bernard Beckett
60.
“The resting place of the mind is the heart. The
only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and
all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is
inside the silence of the heart. That’s where you need to go.“
Elizabeth Gilbert
61.
“Mathematics expresses values that reflect the
cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.“
Deepak Chopra
62.
“Your inner natural flow of life connects you with
the natural flow of life that takes place in the universe.“
Roshan Sharma
63.
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I
would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I
used everything you gave me.“
Erma Bombeck
64.
“If you let people break your spirit and detour you
from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you’re here to
touch, those who believe in you.“
Allison DuBois
65.
“One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by
your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach
to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by
walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you.
It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don’t leave any footprints.
You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind.“
Osho
66.
“To you who are parents, I say, show love to your
children. You know you love them, but make certain they know it as well. They
are so precious. Let them know. Call upon our Heavenly Father for help as you
care for their needs each day and as you deal with the challenges which
inevitably come with parenthood. You need more than your own wisdom in rearing
them.“
Thomas S. Monson
67.
“If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment
when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was
over, you woke up. That’s what people meant when they talked about going to
heaven. It was like waking up.“
Ian McEwan
68.
“The world is full of magic things, patiently
waiting for our senses to grow sharper.“
W.B. Yeats
69.
“We are all connected; To each other, biologically.
To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.“
Neil deGrasse Tyson
70.
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to
everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away.
Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to
carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the
world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.“
Andrew Boyd
71.
“The soul is placed in the body like a rough
diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.“
Daniel Defoe
72.
“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the
topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.“
John Henry Newman
73.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.“
Socrates
74.
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things
which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain
glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon
the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom
which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.“
Edgar Allan Poe
75.
“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our
heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.“
Augustine of Hippo
76.
“Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of
life.“
Dejan Stojanovic
77.
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving
itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are
the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its
magnificence.“
Alan W. Watts
78.
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the
sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.“
Anaïs Nin
79.
“Connecting with those you know love, like and
appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward
in this life.“
Deborah Day
80.
“You do not need to work to become spiritual. You
are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God
is within you. (67)“
Julia Cameron
81.
“Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our
memories.“
Melina Marchetta
82.
“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be
together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.“
Emery Allen
83.
“The Christian does not think God will love us
because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.“
C.S. Lewis
84.
“Nature is made of vibrations of Love.“
João Mendes
85.
“The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no
tears.“
John Vance Cheney
I hope you enjoyed this collection of illuminating spiritual quotes.
Stay victorious!
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