140 Spiritual Quotes to enlighten and awaken you

Spirituality gives a sense of peace, wholeness and balance among the physical, emotional, social and spiritual aspects of our lives.  It explains the actual purpose of life for the person. The path to spiritual enlightenment has been never easy in this materialistic life. Here are best spiritual quotes to enlighten and awaken you.

Spiritual Quotes

1. “Accepting the sufferings and experiencing them is the ultimate ‘truth-of-life’.” ~ Invajy

2. “Spirituality is the light that dispels the darkness of material sense enjoyment.” ~ Invajy

3. “The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.”  ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

4. “The path of spirituality passes through struggles and sufferings.” ~ Invajy

5. “The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.” ~ Marianne Williamson

6. “Big-heartedness is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.” ~ Matthew Fox
7. “Without immense pain and suffering, you cannot rise to greatness.” ~ Invajy
8. “Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.” ~ Mahavira
9. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~ Dalai Lama
10. “Forgiveness means you are not allowing them to stay anywhere in your mind.” ~ Invajy

Quotes on Spirituality

11. “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
12. “Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
13. “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”  ~ Albert Einstein
14. “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”  ~ Joseph Campbell
15. “Accepting the truths of life and embracing the reality helps you move forward on spiritual journey.” ~ Invajy

16. “You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.” ~ George Alexiou
17. “I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.” ~ St. Thomas Aquinas
18. “Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, man cannot live without a spiritual life.” ~ Buddha
19. “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”  ~ Elbert Hubbard
20. “Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.” ~ Dolores del Rio

Spiritualism Quotes

21. “Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.” ~ Samuel Ullman
22. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
23. “Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.” ~ Henri Nouwen
24. “Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.” ~ Jack Kornfield
25. “I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.” ~ R.J. Anderson

26. “The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.” ~ Henri Nouwen
27. “When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.“ ~ Stephen Richards
28. “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.“ ~ Ray Bradbury
29. “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.” ~ Daniel Defoe
30. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” ~ Swami Vivekananda

Quotes on Spiritualism

31. “When a man is willing and eager, the Gods join in.” ~ Aeschylus
32. “Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” ~ Hermann Hesse
33. “Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.” ~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
34. “There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we ignore it.”~ Basith
35. “He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.”~ Albert Schweitzer

36. “People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.”~ Bryant McGill
37. “This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.”~ Aberjhani
38. “Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.”~ Francine Rivers
39. “What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.”~ Carolyn Myss
40. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr

Spirituality Quotes

41. “Be guided by Spirit and not driven by ego.” ~ Anonymous
42. “Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.”~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer
43. “The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.” ~ Swami Sivananda
44. “If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace.” ~ Gerald Jampolsky
45. “Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.” ~ Buddha
46. “We are not human beings trying to be spiritual. We are spiritual beings trying to be human.” ~ Jacquelyn Small
47. “You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars, guides you too.” ~ Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
48. “Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.” ~ St Teresa of Avila
49. “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are.”~ Carl Jung
50. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.” ~ Albert Einstein

Spiritual Quotes about Life

51. “You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.” ~ Anthony De Mello
52. “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” ~ Henry Miller
53. “On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.” ~ Anne Lamott
54. “Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” ~ Helen Keller
55. “If you lose money you lose much, if you lose friends you lose more, if you lose faith you lose all.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
56. “It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
57. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” ~ Denis Waitley
58. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
59. “Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.” ~ Dennis Banks
60. “It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance.” ~ Brother Wayne Teasdale

Spiritual Quote

61. “Intense love does not measure, it just gives.” ~ Mother Teresa
62. “Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there’s no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.” ~ Max Lucado
63. “If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don’t, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.”~ Matt D. Miller
64. “But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.”~ Robert Uttaro
65. “Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.”~ Rumi
66. “You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you.”~ Julia Cameron
67. “What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.”~ Kentetsu Takamori
68. “Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God being present in the mess of our unfixedness.”~ Michael Yaconelli
69. “Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.” ~ Jane Goodall
70. “We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.” ~ Eric Micha’el Leventhal

Positive Spiritual Quotes

71. “The way is not in the sky; the way is in the heart.” ~ Buddha
72. “Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.”~ Richard Rohr
73. “I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.”~ Paulo Coelho
74. “What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” ~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
75. “A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
76. “Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
77. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
78. “Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
79. “Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity.”~ Tony Samara
80. “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” ~ Joseph Campbell

Encouraging Spiritual Quotes

81. “Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.” ~ Jose Saramago
82. “The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.” ~ C.S. Lewis
83. “Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.” ~ Wayne Dyer
84. “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
85. “With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
86. “Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
87. “The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.” ~ Ram Dass
88. “I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe and it will be okay because I don’t quit.” ~ Shayne McClendon
89. “When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.” ~ Lord Krishna
90. “I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of recovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there.” ~ Billy Corgan

Inspirational Spiritual Quotes

91. “On Sabbath: The work is never done. But we are invited to set it aside for the moment to dwell in the presence of God, to experience the sacred right in the middle of the secular.” ~ Terri Lynne Underwood
92. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ~ C.S. Lewis
93. “Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.” ~ C.S. Lewis
94.  “Occasionally, weep deeply over the life you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Then wash your face. Trust God. And embrace the life you have.” ~ John Piper
95. “I have learned to kiss the wave that slams me into the rock of ages.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
96. “God has a race for you to run and He wants you to finish.” ~ Christine Caine
97. “I thank God for protecting me from what I thought I wanted and blessing me with what I didn’t know I needed.” ~ Anonymous
98. “Peace is not the absence of trouble but the presence of Christ.” ~ Sheila Walsh
99. “Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength ~ carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.” ~ Corrie ten Boom
100. “We have to choose joy and keep choosing it.” ~ Henri Nouwen

Spiritual Quotes

101. “I close my eyes in order to see.” ~ Paul Gauguin
102. “The next message you need is always right where you are.” ~ Ram Dass 
103. “The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.” ~  Anais Nin
104. “The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.” ~  Carl Jung
105. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
106. “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
107. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” ~ Mother Teresa
108. “You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
109. “There is a reason they call God a presence – because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
110. “Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Healing Quotes

111. “Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
112. “That lesson suggests that in the end, we can only find peace in our human lives by accepting the will of the universe.” ~ Stephen King
113. “Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.” ~ Bono
114. “At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
115. “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious-the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” ~ Albert Einstein
116. “As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.”  ~ F.B. Meyer
117. “Peace begins with a smile.”  ~ Mother Theresa
118. “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”  ~ C.S. Lewis
119. “No one can have the peace of God until they are at peace with God.”  ~ Jack Wellman
120. “Peace is more than just the absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom. And true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.”  ~ Ronald Reagan

Morning Spiritual Quotes

121. “A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
122. “We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.” ~ Thomas a Kempis
123. “Because of the favor of God, we can have peace in the midst of chaos.” ~ Crystal McDowell
124. “To be of a peaceable spirit brings peace along with it.”  ~ Thomas Watson
125. “Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.” ~ Rick Warren
126. “Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.” ~ Jack Hyles
127. “If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
128. “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.” ~ Augustine
129. “The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.” ~ William Gurnall
130. “Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.” ~ Dwight L. Moody

Spiritual Quotes

131. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Rumi
132. “Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God says.” ~ Joyce Meyer
133. “Religion, spirituality influence health in different but complementary ways.” ~ Matt Decker
134. “You can’t have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.” ~ Cory Booker
135. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
136.  “Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” ~ Corrie ten Boom
137. “Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”  ~ Walt Whitman
138. “Step out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.” ~ Rumi
139. “Let the breath lead the way.” ~ Sharon Salzberg
140. “If god is all you have, you have all you need.” ~ John 14:8

Thank you for reading this. Over to you. Which Spiritual Quotes did you like in the above list? Please let us know your favorite Spiritual Quotes in the comments section.

If you liked this collection of Spiritual Quotes, please share at your favorite social media portals with your friends and relatives.