Spiritually Quotes

Some people think ‘Higher’ is about literally getting high, and other people think it’s more in a spiritual sense. To me, it’s all that. To me, it was like I need to escape from this down state – emotionally, spiritually, mentally, everything. I want to be above this. Wherever we are now. I need to go up.

As we get rich, the basics of life – food, clothing and shelter – become a very small part of total expenditure. And people have enough money to purchase things that enhance them spiritually, and I mean the word ‘spiritual’ not necessarily in a religious sense but in the sense that it adds to your feeling of well-being.

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it’s like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

The temple and the holy ordinances are indeed sacred, and we should be spiritually sensitive to them. It is a sacred blessing to attend the temple to worship the Lord.

If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it’s sinking – financially, morally, spiritually. It’s frightening.

Marriage is not for everyone, but spiritually it is very necessary for me because I have a desire, a need to feel owned.

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.

I have spent a lot of time studying the issue of relationships, how I grew up, my parents’ influence on me. I’ve talked to a therapist,; I’ve looked inward spiritually at myself, and what it seems to come down to is that I’m a Sagittarius. Please don’t make me reveal more than that. It’s tough enough as it is.

My life changed at the age of 27. I was doing well professionally and had just got out of a serious relationship. I suddenly realized that I had reached a low in my life, be it spiritually or emotionally, and started asking a lot of questions – beyond just career and relationships.

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.

I know that I’m deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I’m about the flakiest person you’re gonna meet.

‘The Girls’ tells the story of Rose and Ruby Darlen, who are not only literally but spiritually attached for eternity. Born joined at the head in 1974 to a feckless teenage mother who abandons them, and reared by a delightfully open-minded adoptive couple, the Darlen girls are darling girls, indeed.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

If I’m fulfilled mentally, spiritually, and physically by my daily activities and I’m constantly striving to grow by living out of my comfort zone, then I am successful.

We cannot and will not rest until we have won true swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions – until we have wiped out poverty from our land.

I don’t want to be thought of as somebody who’s spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there’s unknown things happening. I’m not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.

Working out is something that has helped me through everything. Through the grieving of my father, the scandals. It has been something that has helped me not only physically, but mentally and spiritually.

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you’ve bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Even though I didn’t continue with my therapy, I went to church and received counseling from my pastor and got straight spiritually. I was able to turn away from all those things that were destroying me and finally think clearly.

My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.

I’m a very spiritual person, and I believe in God and all that kind of stuff. So my perfect type of guy would be spiritually grounded, extremely respectful and funny because I love to laugh.

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.

Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.

What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space – and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.

Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

I’ve just always had faith. I always had a relationship with God, always spiritually, and always just had that confidence in Him that he would always have my back.

I love people who are fearless, and I’m a spiritual guy, so I connect with people spiritually.

Every bit of knowledge we have demonstrates that there is a complete correlation between playing sports and success and potential for success. Playing sports is good for you physically, mentally, spiritually, psychologically.

I tell people all the time, ‘Don’t give up.’ We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don’t stop.

Christian, non-Christian, we’re going to miss the mark. We’re going to make mistakes. How you handle those mistakes and get more fundamentally sound spiritually in dealing with those mistakes I think have a direct impact – not only on your spiritual life, but those around you.

All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe – not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith.

I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.

Cancer has made me mentally and spiritually stronger. But as my life starts to go back to normal, I find that some of my old, bad habits are still lurking in the shadows.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

You go to Africa, and you see how things are over there. Spiritually, it opens you up.

When I’m spiritually in the right place, there’s no stopping me.

I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.

Spiritually speaking, every human being has a destiny and a duty to perform.

The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually – to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul – harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

Me, I’m spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that’s about as close to God as I get.

You can see how prison could affect some of the other guys that are there for longer than a year. Because eventually, it starts to eat away at you. And if you don’t work at yourself mentally or physically or spiritually, eventually you’re going to be swallowed up by circumstance.

It’s very hard to argue against the message that we all have AIDS. It’s not hard to make the case that we all have been affected, both culturally and spiritually.

Spiritually, we’re all on a path. I haven’t declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you’re identifying with a certain dogma.

Yoga is excellent! It not only keeps me healthy physically but mentally and spiritually also.

In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is ‘My god is greater than your god,’ and we’re fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.

Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well as our health, our safety, and our prosperity. Natural resources enrich us economically, yes. But they also enrich us aesthetically and recreationally and culturally and spiritually.

Just like you need to strengthen your core physically with exercise, you also need to strength your core spiritually.

I can’t afford to have resentment. I can’t afford to be angry. I can’t afford these things spiritually or physically.

To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, this certain faith does not usually come all at once. We learn spiritually line upon line and precept upon precept.

Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore – but to practice.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Twyla’s works are complex, and they really push you as an athlete and push you spiritually as well. Before doing a Twyla ballet, you have to get everything in order: You have to get a good night’s sleep, you have to eat well, you have to be in great shape, and then you just go and leave it all out there.

Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact.

It was only after 20 years of being dunked in the religious culture that I got caught up in ‘religion.’ I had no exposure to Christianity as a child. I was not raised in a Christian home. I became spiritually hungry in high school.

Being fit is almost as important to me as my face. And for me, it’s a combination of being spiritually and physically fit. There are guys who want to look good, and there are guys who want to perform at their best. Being fit is about being able to perform at your best, not necessarily just looking your best.

Some spiritually alert parents hold early-morning devotionals with their families in their homes. They have a hymn, prayer, and then read and discuss the Book of Mormon.

Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appeared younger, slimmer, and healthier. I’m convinced that of all the changes I’ve made to my lifestyle, it’s the adoption of a vegan diet that has been best for me – physically, mentally, and certainly spiritually.

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

It’s the only thing that allowed me to win so many championship fights and allowed me to put up with the bigotry of the media, the keyboard warriors, the critics. I’ve endured it all because, spiritually, I am buoyant, alive.

My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn’t have anything left to give.

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year’s Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

The goal was not only to teach people the Bible and minister to people personally and spiritually, but also to build a church to be community focused.

I changed in a lot of ways, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually.

The songs from ‘Sri Raghavendrar’ got me spiritually inclined.

The Lord’s authorized servants repeatedly teach that one of the principal purposes of our mortal existence is to be spiritually changed and transformed through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

Every living soul among the Latter-day Saints that fasts two meals once a month will be benefited spiritually and be built up in the faith of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ – benefited spiritually in a wonderful way – and sufficient means will be in the hands of the bishops to take care of all the poor.

The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely we are to do it.

The older I get, the more vegetables I eat. I can’t stress that more. Eating healthy really affects my work. You not only need to be physically prepared, but mentally and spiritually.

Why didn’t we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?

Feeling at home with ourselves and being able to create a spirit of place that nourishes us physically, emotionally and spiritually is a goal worthy of our highest priority.

If caregivers are not healthy, mentally well-balanced and spiritually sound, then those for whom they care will suffer.

I was able to find myself spiritually by realizing that my happiness started with me.

Rock-and-roll, to me, is very serious because we deal with the young people. We deal with people who need something, and that’s the same thing that a preacher does. He feeds you something that you need spiritually in your soul and in your makeup.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special – spiritually or however you can.

Film is not as exhilarating, not as physically, mentally, or spiritually challenging, as theatre.

If you have faith, then your whole life is put in a new perspective. You get to work but enjoy the work at the same time. If you grow spiritually, you do what’s in front of you and let the results speak for themselves.

I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.

The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There’s no sizzle, there’s no grab. But it’s the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!

‘Moonlight’ has changed my life externally but also internally… spiritually as well.

I didn’t grow up around my father. I didn’t really grow up around my mother, either. I was raised by a community of people. Spiritually speaking, my father is in Heaven, and that is who I look to for all my answers. And that’s why my faith is very strong and why my passion is strong.

In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

I think the biggest reward is not physical. I rather obtain things spiritually. I mean, it’s so cool to be acknowledged by the public, but that’s not my goal. That’s not why I make music. I would do it anyway, if there was no reward.

Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don’t need to get anybody’s approval or validation.

I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don’t have to do it physically.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

In ancient, prehistoric times, the temples of the spirit were outwardly visible, but today, when our life has become so unspiritual, they no longer exist where we can see them with our physical eyes. Yet spiritually they are still present everywhere, and whoever seeks can find them.

We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don’t. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries.

Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

This has been a really interesting journey, the seven years I’ve been at NASA, and it’s been a real exercise personally and professionally, but also spiritually.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.

If you’re not settled spiritually, things can be a little bit more chaotic than normal.

When I was a kid and I’d be in trouble. I’d ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn’t talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.

The feeling that’s in your heart all the time comes out spiritually in your voice and the music.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

‘Saving Grace’ was a full stretch-out – literally, physically, spiritually, psychologically. And I needed to take a year-and-a-half off when it was over.

The demands of excellent NFL quarterbacking I always said took every piece of me, emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually. It was like it just took it all, and I think that was what was so energizing about it and unreplicable.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

We’re born spiritually dead, and I’m calling for everyone to become spiritually alive. Secondly, don’t wait until later to live the way you were created.

As we become more spiritually mature and increasingly steadfast and immovable, we focus upon and strive to understand the fundamental and foundational doctrines of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.

I’m not afraid to improve myself spiritually, emotionally, economically. I’m not afraid to take on that challenge.

The gospel of Jesus Christ encompasses much more than avoiding, overcoming, and being cleansed from sin and the bad influences in our lives; it also essentially entails doing good, being good, and becoming better. Repenting of our sins and seeking forgiveness are spiritually necessary, and we must always do so.

I have noticed a difference in myself spiritually. I have had a better relationship with my wife and kids. It’s because I am putting the gospel first. I just wish it hadn’t taken me so long to realize it.

We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person’s life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

Spiritually, I’m a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it’s World War III.

Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power – and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness.

I had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I’m kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.