Spiritual Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 10 | GloryQuotes

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

Edwin Louis Cole

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

Walter Pater

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Langston Hughes

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

James Broughton

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

James Joyce

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Albert Ellis

Films made in the spirit of the past continued to be made.

Andrzej Wajda

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

Lionel Blue

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Arthur Erickson

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

Ernest Istook

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

Ernest Istook

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Charles Caleb Colton

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

Studs Terkel

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Douglas Horton

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

John B. S. Haldane

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

Stephen Hawking

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

Dennis Potter

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

M. Scott Peck

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Miguel de Unamuno

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Homer

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

Andres Serrano

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

Edward Dahlberg

We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.

Robert Falcon Scott

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

Wilhelm Dilthey

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Joyce Carol Oates

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

Shirin Ebadi

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Hermann Hesse

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

Taylor Caldwell

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

Andrew Greeley

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

Ed Miliband

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Henry David Thoreau

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

Henri Frederic Amiel

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

Max Frisch

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Anita Brookner

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Laurence Sterne

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

Ralph W. Sockman

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

Stephen Harper

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.