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Positive Spiritual Quotes

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Albert Einstein

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Mohandas Gandhi

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

Mohandas Gandhi

Spiritual Quotes About Wisdom

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Honore de Balzac

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Lydia M. Child

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

William Law

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

Joseph Story

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Joan Rivers

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

Bai Ling

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Short Spiritual Quotes

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

David Herbert Lawrence

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Mohandas Gandhi

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Abraham Lincoln

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Napoleon Bonaparte

More Spiritual Quotes

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Mohandas Gandhi

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Mohandas Gandhi

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

Mohandas Gandhi

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Mohandas Gandhi

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Mohandas Gandhi

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Mohandas Gandhi

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

William Hazlitt

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Mohandas Gandhi

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

William Shakespeare

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

David Herbert Lawrence

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Mohandas Gandhi

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

Thomas Jefferson

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Mohandas Gandhi

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Mohandas Gandhi

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Benjamin Disraeli

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

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