Spiritual Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

William Robertson Smith

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

Karl Barth

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Robertson Davies

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

Lajos Kossuth

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Annie Dillard

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

Emma Goldman

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

J. William Fulbright

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

Francis Quarles

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

Ulrich Beck

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

Kit Williams

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Mary Douglas

So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.

Norman McLaren

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Morris Raphael Cohen

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

Walter Martin

Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.

Wim Wenders

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

Edmund Waller

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

Taylor Caldwell

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Anne Sullivan Macy

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

Marianne Williamson

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

John Jewel

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.

Nicolas Malebranche

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

Peace Pilgrim

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

Naguib Mahfouz

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

Daniel Boone

The soul never thinks without a picture.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Matthew Arnold

Your spirit is the universal voice of love - in you.

Darren L. Johnson

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Jeremy Taylor

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

Saadi

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

Graham Greene

There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.

Daniel Libeskind

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Kate Millett

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

David Herbert Lawrence

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

William Ralph Inge

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

Wislawa Szymborska

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.