Spirituality Quotes (57) Spiritual Sayings
Summary: Definition of Spirituality. Social scientists have defined spirituality as the search for "the sacred," where "the sacred" is broadly defined as that which is set apart from the ordinary and worthy of veneration.
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“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
~ Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Stripped of all its outer encrustations, spirituality emerges as a science, as scientific as any other, as verifiable in its results. Let any seeker take it up and let him create in the laboratory of the soul the conditions that are prerequisite; as sure as the day follows the night shall he rise into the Kingdom of God."
~ Sant Kirpal Singh
"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."
~ Jim Rohn
"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
"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
~ Alan Watts
"In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body."
~ Barbara de Angelis
"We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing."
~ Ernest Holmes
"Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that."
~ Imran Khan
"Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow."
~ Dennis Banks
"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."
~ Simone Weil
"Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation."
~ Joseph Joubert
"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."
~ Neale Donald Walsch
"An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type."
~ Stanislav Grof
"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."
~ 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."
~ Charles Baudelaire
"The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result."
~ Francis Schaeffer
"After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why."
~ Ben Stein
"Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it."
~ Sri Aurobindo
"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."
~ Neale Donald Walsch
"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."
~ Neale Donald Walsch
"The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong."
~ Neale Donald Walsch
"The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing."
~ Neale Donald Walsch
"Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place."
~ Karen Armstrong
"If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious."
~ Neale Donald Walsch
"I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist."
~ Peter Jennings
"Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga."
~ Christy Turlington
"The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ."
~ Karen Armstrong
"The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true."
~ Neale Donald Walsch
"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."
~ Olympia Dukakis
"People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality."
~ Jenny McCarthy
"There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man."
~ Ana Castillo
"A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical."
~ Conrad Black
"At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality."
~ James McGreevey
"To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people."
~ Matthew Fox
"I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality."
~ Amber Tamblyn
"We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality."
~ Moira Kelly
"Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church."
~ Pope Francis
"Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about."
~ Kristin Chenoweth
"Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men."
~ Erich von Stroheim
"For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality."
~ Peabo Bryson
"The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life."
~ Georg Simmel
"Ever since I was young, I was always interested in exploring spirituality. I know that there are many paths to God, there is not just one path."
~ Kyan Douglas
"The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus."
~ Donald Miller
"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."
~ Troy Perry
"We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical."
~ Radhanath Swami
"I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me."
~ Ted Dekker
"Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions."
~ Randa Abdel-Fattah
"You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality."
~ Eckhart Tolle
"The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them."
~ Phillip Noyce
"I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is."
~ Aasif Mandvi
"They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not."
~ Katherine Anne Porter
"Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them."
~ John Ortberg
"I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life."
~ Francois Gautier
"I remember when we had to pick our major freshman year, I chose comparative religion. It came to me out of the blue. I am amazed at how interested I still am in those ideas, especially the way spirituality is expressed in the world and in art."
~ Amy Brenneman
"A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago."
~ Damian Marley
"We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source."
~ Ben Foster
"I'm asked that a lot: 'James, is there really a continuing spiritual renaissance occurring on this planet? Look at all the conflict, look at the wars.' And I believe, yes, we're still moving toward a deeper spirituality. It's personal. It's grassroots. It's everybody trying to get their own connection made, and from there it grows out."
~ James Redfield
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