Spiritual Quotes

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
Georges Rouault

Death, Give, Off

For a long time, I was shy about recording gospel music, because I didn't necessarily want to show the inside of my soul, Milsap revealed. But now, the spiritual side of me is really shining through.
Ronnie Milsap

Music, Time, Long

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.
Pope Francis I

Sick, Church, Sickness

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.
Amy Alcott

Mind, Game, Golf

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.
Joseph Story

Power, Government, Pride

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
Karl Lehmann

Faith, Christian, Sense

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.
Lee Atwater

Society, Heart, Through

I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.
Link Wray

Music, God, Indian

We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!
Virchand Gandhi

Understand, Nation, Dangerous

I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.
Wes Bentley

Person, Church, Consider

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.
William Albert Allard

Work, Put, Culture

Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.
Paul Twitchell

Attitude, Spirit, Determined

Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and one of them will be the spiritual. What I bring to this is the best of my classical training - not all of it. I apply what is appropriate.
Kathleen Battle

Best, Two, Training

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.
Fritz Todt

Life, Beauty, Big

The world that we live in is full of distractions and pleasures that pull us away from a spiritual life. Even our jobs which are a very necessary and important part of our lives can end up being the altar at which we pray. They consume most of our waking hours and provide the income on which we are dependent in order to take care of our families.
Michael Huffington

Life, Live, Care

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.
Shaun Cassidy

Faith, Religion, Great

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.
Mike Ferguson

Powerful, Leader, Last

I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
Alban Berg

Love, Friendship, Music

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
Vikram Chatwal

Nothing, Soul, Conscience

I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.
Michael Stuhlbarg

Life, Time, Hard

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
Ed Case

Marriage, Moral, Personal

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.
Franz von Papen

Freedom, Political, Nation

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
Jose Bergaman

Cannot, Cause, Drinking

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Claudio Monteverdi

Music, Business

The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're not allowing everybody and everything to influence your decisions and your moods, and what's morally right or ethically right.
Meredith Brooks

Life, Real, Everything

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.
Alice Foote MacDougall

Life, Food, Pain

The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.
Steven Lopez

Great, Long, Someone

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
Janet Erskine Stuart

Through, Gifts, Accepted

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.
Emmett Kelly

Life, Done, Wind

And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.
Billy Ocean

Good, Happy, Feeling

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