Spirituality Quotes

"I have come to believe that life is allied with myth in order that we may advance along an evolutionary path that carries us nearer to the spiritual source of life."

- Jean Houston

"The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one's conversion, worthiness, and preparation."

- Russell M. Nelson

"The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it."

- Henri J.M. Nouwen

"God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it."

- Oprah Winfrey

"This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things."

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring."

- William Alexander

"Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite."

- Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra

"Dreams are a starting point for many who wish to begin the spiritual journey to God and do it in the easiest possible way. Dreams taught me to face myself, let me see the future, and took me to the heavens of God."

- Sri Harold Klemp

"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through."

- Jules Verne

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Perhaps instead of bombarding God with requests for what is not, we might try, instead, asking God to open our eyes to see what is."

- Margaret Silf

"Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows."

- Ojibwe Prayer

"Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason."

- Pope Francis

"Sometimes our grandmas and grandpas are like grand-angels."

- Lexie Saige

"Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone."

- Ramakrishna

"Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator."

- Joseph Murray

"The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"There is no doing in the world without being first. For me being, your presence, your connection to yourself, and that which is greater than yourself is far more important than what you do, but is also the thing that fuels what you do."

- Oprah Winfrey

"No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine."

- Hermann Hesse

"The Spirit is said to be unexplainable, incomprehensible, and immutable. Knowing the Spirit as such, you should not grieve for the physical body."

- Bhagavad Gita 2.25

"Weapons do not cut this Spirit, fire does not burn it, water does not make it wet, and the wind does not make it dry."

- Bhagavad Gita 2.23-24

"We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense."

- James Turrell

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control."

- Galatians 5:22-23

"The zen circle to me represents enlightenment, the universe and the strength we all have"

"Sundays are for self-reflection and spiritual growth."

"Recharge your spirit; it’s the sanctuary day."

"Sundays are for reflection, connection, and a heap of blessings."

"May your Sunday be filled with peace, joy, and the warmth of God’s love."

"May the sun shine brightly on your path and God’s grace light your way this Sunday."

"As you begin a new week, may God’s blessings surround you and guide your steps."