Inspirational Spiritual Quotes

Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing' ... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

There is an underlying unity in all things ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Wisdom is spiritual discipline. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I calculated how easy it would be to pull a chair next to the windowsill, climb up, and simply allow my body to fall four stories to the street. Then an inner voice broke in, There's got to be something more. Go find it. ~ Debra Moffitt

Don't follow your heart-follow the One who made it! ~ Mary Kate

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me. ~ Augustine Of Hippo

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. ~ Richard Bach

No situation is beyond the strength within. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Healing of every sort-physical, psychological, energetic, and spiritual-can take place over time or happen in the twinkling of an eye. That our loved ones in heaven know of our suffering and care deeply about us and the onward flow of our lives speaks once again of the love, presence, and connection extending beyond the veil of death. ~ Lee Lawson

If it were up to me ... " and then the words pound, desperate and hard, "I'd write this story differently." ...
"Just that maybe ... maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what a different ending holds."
The words I choked out that dying, ending day, echo. Pierce. There's a reason I am not writing the story and God is. He knows how it all works out, where it all leads, what it all means.
I don't. ~ Ann Voskamp

Spiritual renewal occurs in the wilderness. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart. ~ Sue Monk Kidd

Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail. ~ Henry B. Eyring

Do your best. Then, surrender to the Divine Will. And of course, chill. Things work as they will. ~ Fakeer Ishavardas

It's not enough to hear or think about the truth, we must experience it for ourselves if we are to truly know it. ~ Mada Eliza Dalian

Caterpillar sheds it's skin to find a butterfly within. ~ Donovan

Usually, we believe that our pain is a misfortune that needs to be fixed, but in fact, all pain (physical, mental, and emotional) is a necessary step towards becoming conscious. ~ Mada Eliza Dalian

My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be ...
Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon ... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

Increase your faith. Proclaim your faith. Let your faith show. ~ Russell M. Nelson

As long as I live, so long do I learn. ~ Ramakrishna

As long as Nature is seen as something outside ourselves; frontiered and foreign, separate, it is lost both to us and in us. It follows that to achieve a society in harmony with Nature, we must be guided by respect for it. ~ Crispin Tickell

To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Anybody who says "I know how to get to God and you don't, do this and do that and go here and go there" is going to become 1. very powerful and 2. very rich. The simple truth is, if I am with God, no less can you be with God at the same time as I am. ~ C. JoyBell C.

If anything or anyone removes peace from you or inflicts confusion and judgment on you, this thing or person is not of God regardless of whether or not that person or thing has wrapped itself/himself in the wrapping paper with God's face printed all over it. Don't stop believing in God but stop believing in that person, in that thing. The wrapping paper with God's face stamped all over it isn't really God. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Until you begin to write, then you see wonders. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.

al-Futûhât al-Makkiyya ~ Ibn Arabi

They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would never walk. I walked. They said I would never dance, but I never danced anyway. ~ Benedict Groeschel

To rule your mind, mind your rules. ~ R.N. Prasher

In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here. But you don't lose any spiritual knowledge that you have gained in this or any other lifetime. It is inside you. ~ Frederick Lenz

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information. ~ Albert Einstein

So what's the point of it all?"
"Seriously?" I asked. "Seriously? You're asking me for the meaning of life? Isn't that a little stereotypical?"
"Well it's a reasonable question," you persisted. ~ Andy Weir

To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done. ~ Richard G. Scott

To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger - these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most of these tasks are so full of pleasure that there is no need to complicate things by calling them holy. And yet these are the same activities that change lives, sometimes all at once and sometimes more slowly, the way dripping water changes stone. In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor

I dance to the beat of the earth the memories are the lyrics I write nature leads my soul through this existence I call life. ~ Nikki Rowe

In order to gain gender equality, women and men must work together, equally, to teach our daughters and sons to embrace our differences, respect each others' opinions, and remove stereotypes to what a girl or boy should aspire. ~ Basia Christ

Maybe we shouldn't begin to stop believing in God when He starts to let go of our hand; because at that moment He begins to let go of your hand, that's the moment He's begun to believe in YOU! He says, "I believe in you, I know you can." And that's not the time to stop believing in someone, when He is believing in you. A good father knows when to let go and start believing that you can. We may not understand it at first, but after we look at ourselves and say "Wow, I'm awesome, I did that all by myself." Then we say "Thanks, dad. If you never let go of me, I would have never learned how to fly. ~ C. JoyBell C.

In my life, I have but one anchor and that anchor is my God. I think if you look closely enough, you can even see it in my eyes, you'll see a strong place, an anchor. That is God. ~ C. JoyBell C.

It was as simply as that. And as complex. ~ Svetlana Meritt

The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love ~ Helen Shucman

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm. ~ Bryant McGill

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. ~ Kahlil Gibran

Look heavenly onward. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When in pain and sorrow, you ask why God allows bad things to happen to good people, remember God allowed His Son, the best of us, to suffer the most so that Christ would have the ability to heal us. ~ Leslie G Nelson

To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos. ~ Joanne Stepaniak

In the midst of the awfulness, a touch comes and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. The right hand not of restraint nor of correction nor of chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it is ineffable peace and comfort, the sense that "underneath are the everlasting arms," full of sustaining and comfort and strength.
My Utmost for His Highest: Classic Edition ~ Oswald Chambers

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Take God at His Word – because winning the battle doesn't require
physical brawn, but spiritual brains! ~ Pedro Okoro

Treading along in this dreamlike, illusory realm,
Without looking for the traces I may have left;
A cuckoo's song beckons me to return home;
Hearing this, I tilt my head to see
Who has told me to turn back;
But do not ask me where I am going,
As I travel in this limitless world,
Where every step I take is my home. ~ Dogen

The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

I have come to know that faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief. ~ Boyd K. Packer

When our actions are based on good intentions our soul has not regrets. ~ Anthony Douglas Williams

A good story conveys a message that strengthens our values. ~ Ronald R. Cooke

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~ Thomas A Kempis

Matter is fun for a while; but ultimately, it is the spiritual experience where we leap beyond what we know- that is the happiness. ~ Frederick Lenz

Life for a child of God isn't about your successes or failures; Christ IS your success. ~ Jenari Skye

The warrior masters himself in order to help others. Only when you can feel your enemies inside and know them, can you conquer them. ~ Brian E. Miller

The plan to deal with fears:
#1. Fear the Lord!
#2. Let the Lord deal with the rest! ~ Mary Kate

Whatever your station or position in life, there is always room for improvement, enhancement, and perfection. I say this with a great sense of humility. Regardless of what you are enjoying at the moment, the Lord says that he has something
better for you! No matter what you have achieved, attained, or accomplished
in this world, there are more challenges and blessings ahead. God says that you have stayed long enough on this mountain. It is time to press forward to take more territories and receive more trophies. ~ Pedro Okoro

I refuse to put God into a little box I can handle, for that would insult us both. ~ L.M. Fields

Blessed are souls with thankful heart. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A noble and resolute people can safely tread a dark and fearsome path if they always shine before them the lamps of wisdom and valor. ~ Aleksandra Layland

The best ideas are common property ~ Seneca.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens ~ Oscar Wilde

Humans assign gender to God, so the first question to ask ourselves is who decided God was male? The second question is why? ~ Peter Wilkes

It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos. ~ Anne Lamott

Live simply so that others may simply live was marvelously observed by St. Elizabeth Seton . If this simple truth could only be programmed into the human DNA, imagine the possibilities. Until than, the education of the human heart is the answer and our only hope. ~ Adam Kovacevic

It was for the music, for the beautiful music. For the chance to become, for one brief and thrilling moment, a song. ~ Amy Weiss

We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion, they lack the eye of wisdom to see the path leading to nirvana and enlightenment, and they lack the necessary guidance of a spiritual teacher. Moment by moment they are indulging in negative actions, which will eventually bring about their downfall. ~ Dalai Lama

That which you see in me is that which is in you. ~ Maitreya Miranda* ~ ~ Miranda Linda Weisz

We can become the masters of our own destinies by practicing self-discipline and by setting worthy goals that will lead to higher ground so that we can become what our heavenly father wants us to become. ~ M. Russell Ballard

It is not for you to determine your purpose, the reason for your existence. You discover your purpose by asking the Creator why he created you! ~ Pedro Okoro

Feelings harden into beliefs when we allow emotions to become bearers of truth. ~ Ginger Harrington

Remember to take in and harvest light yet also allow yourself to cast shadows where needed, like a tree. Then, in return, your shadow will support your light. ~ Iva Kenaz

You are not as insignificant as you have often been told, nor are you any more significant than you have often told yourself. ~ Maureen Moss

I was asked by a concerned church-goer: "Is your relationship with God okay?" and I answered "My relationship with God is far better than yours. You have to be in a certain place, with a certain group of people, pray at certain days of the week, read the Bible at certain times of the day; all in order to have a relationship with God. But I am with God from the moment I wake up, to the moment I fall asleep at night, I am with God wherever on this earth that I wander to, and whosoever I may be with! I may be sitting on the subway, and I am with God. I can assure you that I am closer to God than you are. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see. ~ Charles Kingsley

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world. ~ Billy Graham

What is destiny more than an end result? If there is such thing as destiny it must change. With every thought we think, every word we utter, every choice we make our destiny adjusts to fit the consequences of that choice. ~ Eve S. Nicholson

Before you can do something you must first be something. ~ John Gielgud

Remember this, you don't have to be important or special or glamorous; all you actually need is success and pleasure from whatever it is that you choose to do with your life. You don't have to become something in the eyes of others, you only have to become something in your own reality. From this humble attitude flows a sweet serenity which comes naturally from personal healing and spiritual reconciliation. ~ Stuart Wilde

The final and only act of healing is to accept that there is nothing wrong with you. ~ Robert Holden

You are doing better than you think you are. ~ Alan Cohen

Unless therefore I am convinced by the testimony of Scripture or by the clearest reasoning, unless I am persuaded by means of the passages I have quoted, and unless they thus render my conscience bound by the word of God, I cannot and I will not retract, for it is unsafe for a Christian to speak against his conscience. Here I stand, I can do no other; may God help me. Amen.-Martin Luther ~ Ellen G. White

The spirit is beyond pleasure and pain; it's outside them. They are swings of opposites. The spiritual is in the here and now. It's not pleasure nor is it pain. It is its own substance, its own kind. ~ Belsebuub

No ideology can help to create a new world
or a new mind or a new human being
because ideological orientation itself
is the root cause of all the conflicts and all the miseries.
Thought creates boundaries, thought creates divisions and thought creates prejudices; thought itself cannot bridge them. That's why all ideologies fail.
Now man must learn to live without ideologies
religious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to move to new understandings. And in that freedom flowers all that is good and all that is beautiful. ~ Osho

The authority that God has given you over Satan is ample, wide-ranging, thorough, all embracing ~ Pedro Okoro

Either you're a person wondering if you have a soul, or you're a soul who knows that being a person isn't real. ~ Deepak Chopra

There's no devil in the world, we make our own devils ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth. ~ Eckhart Tolle

The Light Angel Prince has changed his nature, challenged his own creator, but what we took so long to build, he will not destroy," he said. "Upon him we must concentrate our might. For what he has done to my golden children and my land alone, he must end. I alone will teach him what it means to defy an Archangel. When I travel, the planets know when I am near. When I turn, the stars remember. ~ Philip Dodd

Working by heart means using your feelings and emotions to lead you to your spiritual sense of existence. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi

The two most challenging tasks a man can face in life is education of the heart and education of the child-every other task he contemplates in life before him pales in comparison to those two. On this path of absolute uncertainty, the descending heart will permiate the education of the mind ... An initiation rite for young heart. An initiation rite for young men. ~ Adam Kovacevic

When I Am Within, I Am Never Without. ~ Trilby D. Johnson

My life is my testimony. ~ L.M. Fields

You will never know everything. Knowledge unfolds as we move forward. Sitting back and waiting to know everything before we do anything is a waste of life.
~ I Am Another You ~ Priya Kumar

Just as you cannot stop a bird from flying over your head, in the same way you cannot stop the devil from dropping ideas into your mind. However, in the same way that you can stop a bird from building a nest on your head, you can stop the Enemy's suggestions from wandering without restriction and taking root in your mind. ~ Pedro Okoro

When we get the inspiration from Heave to do something. We do it now. We don't procrastinate. ~ William R. Walker