In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.
~By Franz Marc ~
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
~By Xun Zi ~
However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.
~By Walter Martin ~
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.
~By George Whitefield ~
One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
~By Bell Hooks ~
I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.
~By Olympia Dukakis ~
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more cynical about his beliefs, and I think I have to kind of drop what I believe in order to play him.
~By Jason Ritter ~
I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.
~By Link Wray ~
Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
~By Franz von Papen ~
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.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
A lot has happened since Dr. King left us. He probably wouldn't recognize the landscape if he saw it, but I still believe he would still have the same spiritual faith and also faith in us as people - not only people in our nation, but people in the world.
~By Morris Dees ~
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
~By Barbara Walters ~
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.
~By Curtis Sittenfeld ~
Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.
~By Pat Buckley ~
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
~By John Owen ~
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.
~By Michael Medved ~
When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness.
~By John Strachan ~
This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.
~By Johann Arndt ~
I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.
~By Julian Clary ~
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.
~By Dennis Brown ~
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
~By Billy Graham ~
I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.
~By Scott Stapp ~
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.
~By William Ames ~
We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.
~By Smokey Robinson ~
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.
~By Kirk Cameron ~
For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.
~By Herb Elliott ~
Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
~By William Griffith Wilson ~
That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
~By Ben Harper ~
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.
~By Thomas Merton ~
As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.
~By Warren R. Austin ~
I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
~By Garry Shandling ~
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.
~By David Brainerd ~
The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
I also work with the spirituality of people.
~By Della Reese ~
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men.
~By Erich von Stroheim ~
I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly funded schools cannot offer the type of spiritual education that Catholic schools have long provided.
~By Mark Foley ~
I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?
~By Robert Barclay ~
Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
~By Dan Brown ~
But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.
~By Anthony Kiedis ~
We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
~By Naomi Judd ~
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
~By Camille Paglia ~
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
~By Shakti Gawain ~
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
~By Edgar Winter ~
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?
~By Anish Kapoor ~
A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.
~By Ashley Judd ~
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
~By Florence Scovel Shinn ~
What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.
~By Dave Davies ~
However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.
~By Alex Campbell ~
But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.
~By Katie Couric ~
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.
~By Troy Perry ~
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
~By James Allen ~
My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
~By John Muir ~
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
~By Albert Camus ~
Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!
~By John Philip Sousa ~
I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
~By Otis Rush ~
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.
~By Rick Springfield ~
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
~By Edvard Munch ~
By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
~By Buddha ~
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
~By Luciano Berio ~
As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
~By Christy Turlington ~
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
~By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
~By Margaret Deland ~
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
~By Danny Glover ~
Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually.
~By Rick Wakeman ~
If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.
~By Henry Reed ~
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
~By Teilhard de Chardin ~
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
~By John Henrik Clarke ~
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
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