The Spiritual Life Quotes

The Spiritual Life Quote of the day

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.

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

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

Think for yourself and question authority.

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.

Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Any woman on this planet who values herself as a woman is great. She is a giver of life. And when you are a giver of life, what more is there?

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

If you keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

The Bible is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God.

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.

In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.

Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His Wrath stops us from evil.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.