50 Spiritual Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Soul

"The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience."

- Wayne Dyer

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."

- Buddha

"Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world."

- Dalai Lama

"To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually."

- Eckhart Tolle

"You have power over your mind– not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Do anything, but let it produce joy."

- Walt Whitman

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone."

- Amit Ray

"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

- Swami Vivekananda

"The path to love is our spiritual destiny."

- Deepak Chopra

"Your giving and searching for ways to give is love in action. This is the evidence of Spirit at work."

- Marshall Vian Summers

"The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love."

- Harold Klemp

"The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Love is the most satisfying way to control the mind. Bhakti makes us single-minded when it awakens our innate spirit of love."

- Radhanath Swami

"Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity, and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."

- Nikki Giovanni

"You can never love another person unless you are equally involved in the beautiful but difficult spiritual work of learning to love yourself."

- John O’Donohue

"Spiritual love, derived from love intelligence, is nonconditional, nonpersonal benevolence. It is the love of being loving, with no strings attached."

- Thomas Hora

"The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Step out on faith and walk into your purpose."

- Germany Kent

"Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity."

- Deepak Chopra

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Accept–then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. This will miraculously transform your whole life."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

- Denis Waitley

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."

- Emily Dickinson

"Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual."

- Edgar Cayce

"The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now."

- Henri Nouwen

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love."

- Marianne Williamson

"The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth."

- Ram Dass

"Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning, and purpose to our lives."

- Brené Brown

"The human spirit is the lamp of the Lord."

- Proverbs 20:27

"What you are is God’s gift to you. What you become is your gift to God."

- Hans Urs von Balthasar

"The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not."

- C.S. Lewis

"With God, there’s always an appointed time for things, and when you put Him first, trust in His timing, and keep the faith, miracles happen!"

- Germany Kent

"It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are–not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within–that you can begin to take control."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."

- Walt Whitman

"Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth."

- Rumi

"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."

- Neil DeGrasse Tyson

"It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters."

- Amit Ray

"There is no other spiritual teacher than you own soul."

- Swami Vivekananda

"Know what sparks the light in you so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands."

- Psalm 19:1

"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

- Romans 8:38-39

"Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus."

- 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

"Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven."

- Matthew 5:16

"In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."

- Proverbs 3:6

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

- John 3:16

"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing, and perfect will."

- Romans 12:2

"And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful."

- Colossians 3:15

"But they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint."

- Isaiah 40:31

"I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."

- Galatians 2:20

"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God."

- Ephesians 2:8

"The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song, I praise him."

- Psalm 28:7

"Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'"

- John 14:6

"And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose."

- Romans 8:28

"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."

- Philippians 4:8

"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness."

- Billy Graham

"It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."

- Deepak Chopra

"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs."

- Saint Francis de Sales

"Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God."

- Radhanath Swami

"I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there."

- Billy Corgan

"Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies."

- George Whitefield

"It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual."

- Oswald Chambers

"A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures."

- James E. Faust

"A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire."

- Thomas Merton

"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

- Denis Waitley

"True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth."

- Charles Spurgeon

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers."

- Swami Sivananda

"Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God."

- Henri Nouwen

"The Lord is anxious to lead us to the safety of higher ground, away from the path of physical and spiritual danger. His upward path will require us to climb."

- Henry B. Eyring

"Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience."

- John Bevere

"Life without an ideal is spiritual death."

- Emma Goldman

"Of course you don’t die. Nobody dies. Death doesn’t exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world."

- Henry Miller

"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are in eternity now."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together."

- Edgar Winter

"In each of us, there is another whom we do not know."

- Carl Jung

"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."

- Joseph Campbell

"Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations."

- Samuel Ullman

"Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process."

- Sai Baba

"There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, so it doesn’t matter which path you take. The only person wasting time is the one who runs around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong."

- Hindu proverb

"You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about."

- Mary Oliver

"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."

- Russell M. Nelson

"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven."

- Johannes A. Gaertner

"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment."

- Arthur Helps

"Religion is for people who’re afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there."

- Vine Deloria, Jr.

"Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."

- George Eliot

"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers."

- T. D. Jakes

"Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result."

- Sinclair B. Ferguson

"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong."

- John Lennon

"Let the breath lead the way."

- Sharon Salzberg

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

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body."

- Caroline Myss

"You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation."

- Cory Booker

"The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness."

- Ellen G. White

"Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing."

- Brian Weiss

"The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning."

- M. Scott Peck

"When I release my weaknesses and blind spots to God, He uses them to help me grow up spiritually."

- Crystal McDowell

"If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers."

- Ed Sullivan

"The hardest thing to ever do is to reveal the naked soul to the world. However, in doing so brings healing, growth, strength, and powerful inspiration!"

- H.E. Olsen

"Spiritual development is not an accomplishment but a way of life. It is an orientation that brings its own rewards, and what is important is the direction of one’s motives."

- David R. Hawkins

"Serious spiritual practice is more than serene walks in the woods, lit candles, and incense. You have to be committed. You have to be willing to enter into your own darkness and transcend it."

- Maria Erving

"If a man does not exercise his arm, he develops no biceps muscle; and if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires no muscle in his soul, no strength of character, no vigor of moral fiber, nor beauty of spiritual growth."

- Henry Drummond

"There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy."

- Erwin W. Lutzer

"Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior."

- Andy Stanley

"Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God."

- Erwin W. Lutzer

"To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious."

- Mark Batterson

"Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next."

- Henri Nouwen

"The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are, but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace."

- Philip Yancey

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

- Mother Teresa

"Spiritual maturity does not mean that we will never make wrong plans. In fact, spiritual maturity often means having the courage to admit we’ve made the wrong plans."

- Beth Moore

"One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others."

- David A. Bednar

"Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened."

- Jack Kornfield

"Be tolerant of those who are lost on their path. Ignorance, conceit, anger, jealousy, and greed stem from a lost soul. Pray that they will find guidance."

- Elder Wisdom

"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."

- Thomas Aquinas

"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity."

- Joseph Campbell

"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves."

- William Ellery Channing

"Spiritual progress is like a detoxification."

- Marianne Williamson

"Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face."

- Dolores del Rio

"You can’t have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation."

- Cory Booker

"Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Spirituality is keeping the spirit up against all odds and obstacles of life."

- Amit Ray

"I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution."

- George Washington

"Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go."

- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

"Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind."

- Charles Fillmore

"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening."

- Walter Scott

"Spirituality: the art of keeping your internal fire alive."

- Maxime Lagacé

"The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress."

- Ramana Maharshi

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God."

- Tracey Gold

"I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual."

- Sela Ward

"You’ll never be able to grow if you’re afraid to lose people during the process. Sometimes past relationships don’t belong in new seasons."

- Trent Trenton

"Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere."

- Keanu Reeves

"An intentional spiritual dietary plan is as essential to your spiritual growth as a deliberate dietary plan is fundamental to your physical well-being."

- Patricia Ennis

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction."

- E. O. Wilson

"A museum is a spiritual place. People lower their voices when they get close to art."

- Mario Botta

"A quiet conscience makes one strong!"

- Anne Frank

"Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won’t rain forever."

- Amy Poehler

"Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence."

- Franz Kafka

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one."

- Nikolai Berdyaev

"Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!"

- Lauryn Hill

"The song is ended, but the melody lingers on."

- Irving Berlin

"Your political views really denote your spiritual views."

- Alanis Morissette

"The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines."

- Anne Lamott

"My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs."

- John Frusciante

"I'm a culinary gangsta with a very spiritual side, so when I was introduced to the 'spiritual gangster' line, I had to have it."

- Guy Fieri

"Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy."