Spiritual Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

Patrick Henry

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

Keith Miller

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

Steven Spielberg

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Charles Horton Cooley

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

Patricia Hewitt

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

James A. Baldwin

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

Mercy Otis Warren

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

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Heinrich Heine

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Alexis Carrel

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

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

John Keats

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

Lionel Blue

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Barbara de Angelis

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Thomas More

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Joseph Joubert

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

John Updike

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

Michael Shermer

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

Henry A. Wallace

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

Howard Nemerov

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Marianne Williamson

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Swami Vivekananda

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.

Arthur Middleton

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

Felix Adler

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

Elie Wiesel

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Edward Young

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

Henry Cabot Lodge

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Swami Sivananda

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Minna Antrim

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Anais Nin

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

Jimmy Carter

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.