I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God. ~By Andy Dick ~
Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies. ~By George Whitefield ~
All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts. ~By Vinoba Bhave ~
Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts. ~By Pat Buckley ~
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. ~By Arthur Helps ~
The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it. ~By Marianne Williamson ~
We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts. ~By Ruth St. Denis ~
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. ~By John Muir ~
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 ~
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. ~By William Ellery Channing ~
Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche. ~By George Crumb ~
Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need. ~By Fritz Sauckel ~
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 ~
A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal. ~By Andrew Cohen ~
Art is spiritual. ~By John Cusack ~
I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives. ~By David Friedman ~
I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers. ~By Tina Turner ~
New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat. ~By Brendan Behan ~
The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical. ~By George Crook ~
There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power. ~By Josiah Strong ~
Yoga has reinforced and grounded my own spiritual beliefs. ~By Christy Turlington ~
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist. ~By Peter Jennings ~
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual. ~By Oswald Chambers ~
As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me. ~By Stacie Orrico ~
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ~By Albert Camus ~
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. ~By Leo Buscaglia ~
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 ~
The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty. ~By Fritz Todt ~
A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation. ~By Stanislav Grof ~
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 ~
I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing. ~By Leonard Nimoy ~
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning. ~By Walter Gropius ~
Why not hold on to whatever I've got because it's as good as it's ever going to get. How can I believe that love is coming, how can I even believe that love exists; if I don't believe it's spiritually based? ~By Kenny Loggins ~
The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind. ~By Charles Eastman ~
My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from. ~By Wyclef Jean ~
Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that. ~By James Brown ~
I do believe in the viability of Indian spiritualism. ~By James Welch ~
It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host. ~By Jim Bakker ~
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. ~By Paul Tournier ~
I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight. ~By Stephen Baldwin ~
That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction. ~By David O. Russell ~
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them. ~By Roland Allen ~
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. ~By Jim Rohn ~
This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave. ~By Kenny Loggins ~
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ~By Albert Camus ~
What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual. ~By Keith Miller ~
If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about. ~By Carlos Santana ~
I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path. ~By Mariel Hemingway ~
In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.' ~By Jimmy Carter ~
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. ~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness. ~By Billy Graham ~
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures. ~By Thomas Aquinas ~
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. ~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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 ~
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. ~By Joyce Brothers ~
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. ~By Robertson Davies ~
The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.' ~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual. ~By Indra Devi ~
I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church. ~By Peter Jurasik ~
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does. ~By Ernest Holmes ~
As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win. ~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization. ~By Noah Taylor ~
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity. ~By Campbell Scott ~
What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now. ~By Mike Ditka ~
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. ~By Stanislav Grof ~
Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit. ~By Paul Twitchell ~
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. ~By Franz Kafka ~
By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life. ~By Emmett Kelly ~
Coincidences are spiritual puns. ~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. ~By Naomi Klein ~
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. ~By E. Stanley Jones ~
God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not. ~By Evelyn Underhill ~
I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality. ~By Sandra Bernhard ~
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world. ~By Arthur Helps ~
A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick. ~By James Franco ~
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 ~
Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two. ~By Franz Marc ~
Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow. ~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
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 think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. ~By Dave Davies ~
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result. ~By Francis Schaeffer ~
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. ~By Beverly Sills ~
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. ~By Calvin Coolidge ~
Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage. ~By Jose Bergaman ~
When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden. ~By Carlos Santana ~
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. ~By Oprah Winfrey ~
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ~By Annie Dillard ~
Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives. ~By Henry Reed ~
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water. ~By Victoria Beckham ~
Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact. ~By Roland Allen ~
My driving force is spirituality. ~By Debra Wilson ~
Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically? ~By Chris Matthews ~
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. ~By Alexis Carrel ~
You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life. ~By Jack LaLanne ~
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 ~
Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga. ~By Christy Turlington ~
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution. ~By Christopher Dawson ~
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. ~By Joseph Campbell ~
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death. ~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress. ~By Dan Brown ~
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