Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hans Christian Andersen

We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendor that God has created, but we shall get them one day, and that will be the greatest fairytale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world. We see how past ages have loitered and erred. "Is perhaps our generation free from irrationality and error? Have we perhaps reached now the summit of human wisdom, and need no more to look out for mental or physical improvement?" Undoubtedly, we are never so visionary as to be prepared for what the next hour may bring forth.

Hugh Walpole

I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.

Guy Finley

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless living - they lie.

Gottfried Leibniz

God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.

Giancarlo Esposito

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

Gerhard Richter

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.

Harold Ramis

The times change, and to the extent that comedy captures the spirit of the times, it will enjoy success.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Truth is something which you must see immediately, and to see something clearly you must give your heart, mind and whole being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.

Iyanla Vanzant

As we learn to see each other through our spiritual eyes, the physical differences will cease to matter.

Homer

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

Gene Edwards

Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under such prayer and fervor, however, are ambition, a craving for fame, the desire to be considered a spiritual giant. The person who prays such a prayer may not even know it, but dark motives and desires are in his heartin your heart.

Jerry Bridges

We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word.

Huston Smith

I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.

If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.

Aberjhani

Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

Aberjhani

By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

We have a lot of spirited discussions. We need to be able to have these discussions, and after that we need to get along.

Dallas Willard

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

David Jeremiah

If we don’t have the Word of God as the foundation of what we believe, we will have a faulty footing—it will not stand against the elements that will come against us. God has designed both our physical and spiritual lives to be ordered by one key attribute upon which the fruit of the Spirit is based—that foundation is love.

David A. Bednar

Sturdy gospel roots that go deep into rich spiritual soil strengthen and steady us in times of trial and difficulty.

David Wilcock

Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to work this out within ourselves. A very key spiritual principle, echoed in the Cayce readings as well as mainstream psychology, is that whatever we see in others that makes us angry, sad or jealous is a reflection of an issue we have in ourselves. If we can learn to love, respect and forgive ourselves, then we will not be angered and offended by what we see in others.

Dag Hammarskjold

Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.

Billy Graham

Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

Andre Gide

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.