Spiritual Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Albert Einstein

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

Mary Astell

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Michel de Montaigne

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

Jesse Jackson

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

Bill Condon

Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance.

Benny Hinn

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

James Lovelock

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

William Shakespeare

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Honore de Balzac

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Alexander Smith

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

David Wilkerson

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Charles Dickens

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

John Burroughs

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Naguib Mahfouz

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Emily Dickinson

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

George Bernard Shaw

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

David Herbert Lawrence

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Heraclitus

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Napoleon Bonaparte

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

Black Elk

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Malcolm Muggeridge

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Walter Bagehot

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

David Herbert Lawrence

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

William Hazlitt

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Charles de Gaulle

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

Michael Shermer

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

George Santayana