Spiritual Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Mohandas Gandhi

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

William Hazlitt

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Marcus Aurelius

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Henry Ward Beecher

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Albert Schweitzer

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

Charles Baudelaire

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allan Poe

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

Bryant H. McGill

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Henry Ward Beecher

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

George Santayana

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

George Santayana

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

William Hazlitt

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

Muhammad Iqbal

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

John Adams

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

Walter Jon Williams

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

George Santayana

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Honore de Balzac

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

Michael Bloomberg