Spirituality Quotes

"Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything."

- Plato

"Music is my religion."

- Jimi Hendrix

"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."

- Lao Tzu

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: ‘The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.’"

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Music… is the only real religion that is worth devoting your soul to. It is the last remnant of the primal scream, the funeral dirge, and the wedding march. It is the light that keeps me out of the shadows, and it is the reason my immortal soul is not in dire straits."

- Corey Taylor

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky."

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

"If you have not heard His voice speaking to you lately, return with new eyes and new ears to the scriptures. They are our spiritual lifeline. Behind the darkness of the Iron Curtain, the Saints survived because they heard His voice through the scriptures. In other parts of the world, when members couldn't attend Church for a time, they continued to worship God because they heard His voice through the scriptures. Throughout all the wars of the past century and the conflicts that rage today, Latter-day Saints survive because they hear His voice through the scriptures. For the Lord has said, 'The scriptures shall be given . . . to the salvation of mine own elect; for they will hear my voice, and shall see me, and shall not be asleep, and shall abide the day of my coming; for they shall be purified, even as I am pure."

- Robert D. Hales

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."

- Moshe Dayan

"I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering."

- Mother Teresa

"Each one of them is Jesus in disguise."

- Mother Teresa

"PRAYER IN ACTION IS LOVE, LOVE IN ACTION IS SERVICE."

- Mother Teresa

"I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things."

- Mother Teresa

"God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist."

- Mother Teresa

"Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness."

- Mother Teresa

"Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude – an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God."

- A.W. Pink

"You call it God, We call it the universe."

- Sharmila Karthikeyan

"I believe everyone is on a spiritual path—some people know it, some don’t. The ones that know it call themselves religious, spiritual, or Soul Searchers."

- Emma Mildon

"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

- Saint Augustine

"Humility is royalty without a crown."

- Spencer W. Kimball

"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Humility, like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love."

- Pope Francis

"To live free is to live in humility: you don’t pretend, you don’t show off."

- Maxime Lagacé

"Humility is, 'nothing but that simple consent of the creature to let God be all, in virtue of which it surrenders itself to His working alone.'"

- Andrew Murray

"prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things."

"Good morning! Each morning, we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."

"Let the spirit of Christmas fill your heart as the lights on the tree fill the room with a soft, gentle glow."

"May the light of God’s love shine upon you, guiding you towards success and happiness in all your endeavours."