If you are looking for some of the most profound and insightful spiritual quotes, you’re in the right place! 🌀
Below, you will find a wide range of spiritual quotes from some of the leading minds in the world that are sure to inspire, awaken, motivate, and provide clarity.
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143+ Profound Spiritual Quotes & Sayings!
1. “The Holy Land is everywhere.” – Black Elk
2. “Let the breath lead the way.” – Sharon Salzberg
3. “Don’t try to steer the river.” – Deepak Chopra
4. “What you seek is seeking you.” – Rumi
5. “I close my eyes in order to see.” – Paul Gauguin
6. “Life without an ideal is spiritual death.” – Emma Goldman
7. “The universe has shaken you to awaken you.” – Proverb
8. “Be guided by spirit and not driven by ego.” – Unknown
9. “It takes darkness to be aware of the light.” – Treasure Tatum
10. “Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.” – Marianne Williamson
11. “I believe and therefore anything is possible.” – Proverb
12. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.” – Rumi
14. “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” – Corrie ten Boom
15. “He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.” – Proverb
16. “Eliminate everything that doesn’t help you evolve.” – Unknown
17. “The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart.” – Gautama Buddha
18. “Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.” – Jack Kornfield
19. “Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.” – Meister Eckhart
20. “Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. “He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.” – Augustine of Hippo
22. “You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” – C.S. Lewis
23. “The next message you need is always right where you are.” – Ram Dass
24. “The only temple that matters can be found within yourself.” – The Dalai Lama
25. “Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.” – Jack Kornfield
26. “Step out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.” – Rumi
27. “The eye sees only…what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” – Proverb
28. “You’ll be calm the day you learn to sit alone and do nothing.” – Maxime Lagacé
29. “You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.” – Amit Ray
30. “Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.” – Norman Vincent Peale
31. “To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.” – Osho
32. “The power within you is greater than the power within the world.” – Rhonda Byrne
33. “…the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.” – Ann Voskamp
34. “You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.” – Joseph Campbell
35. “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
36. “If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.” – Ram Dass
37. “Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.” – Watt Whitman
38. “Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.” – Henri Nouwen
39. “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.” – Joseph Campbell
40. “Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.” – Osho
41. “Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.” – Deepak Chopra
42. “Big-heartedness is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.” – Matthew Fox
43. “The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.” – Carl Jung
44. “Follow your intuition it will always take you to the right destination.” – Fearless Soul
45. “Never lose hope. Just when you think it’s over, God send you a miracle.” – Unknown
46. “The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.” – Anais Nin
47. “I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.” – Martin Luther
48. “Follow your intuition, it will always lead you to the right destination.” – Unknown
49. “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.” – Elbert Hubbard
50. “When there’s nothing but humility, there’s nothing but spiritual oneness.” – Frederick Lenz
51. “Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.” – Aberjhani
52. “When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.” – Amaka Imani Nkosazana
53. “Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.” – Dolores del Rio
54. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” – Mother Teresa
55. “Let your faith be bigger than your fears, have faith success will be near.” – Proverb
56. “You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.” – Amit Ray
57. “Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” – Helen Keller
58. “The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.” – Marianne Williamson
59. “If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.” – Thomas Merton
60. “God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.” – Amit Ray
61. “Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.” – José Saramago
62. “Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; Wisdom is better than silver or gold.” – Bob Marley
63. “Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
64. “Man has discovered everything, but he has not discovered the Got that is withing.” – Air
65. “The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.” – Henri J.M. Nouwen
66. “The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.” – Aaron Lauritsen
67. “God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.” – Julian of Norwich
68. “So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” – 1 Corinthians 13:13
69. “You can’t have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.” – Cory Booker
70. “It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
71. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God!” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
72. “No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.” – J. Edwin Orr
73. “Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.” – Amit Ray
74. “At the end of the day, I’m at peace, because my intention is good and my heart is pure.” – Proverb
75. “The answer you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still.” – Unknown
76. “Ask and you shall receive is the rule, but you must learn how to ask and how to receive.” – Gary Zukav
77. “Create a life that feels good on the inside, not just one that looks good on the outside.” – Unknown
78. “Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.” – Amit Ray
79. “The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
80. “Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.” – Swami Vivekananda
81. “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
82. “The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.” – Samuel Ullman
83. “The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.” – St. Thomas Aquinas
84. “A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
85. “I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.” – Shooter Teton Sioux
86. “Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.” – Vincent McNabb
87. “Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” – Hermann Hesse
88. “He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.” – Isaac Newton
89. “At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
90. “Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.” – Jane Goodall
91. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius
92. “Spiritual maturity isn’t measured by how high you jump in praise but how straight you walk in obedience.” – Unknown
93. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
94. “The whole of life is to spiritualize our activities by humility and faith, to silence our nature by charity.” – Thomas Merton
95. “Anybody can thank God for good things. But when you can thank God even in the bad things, your faith grown…” – Rick Warren
96. “The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.” – Swami Sivananda
97. “Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.” – Swami Vivekananda
98. “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
99. “When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going around you.” – Stephen Richards
100. “You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.” – Anthony de Mello
101. “You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you.” – Osho
102. “One day you will wake up and realize there won’t be anymore time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” – Paulo Coelho
103. “Enlightenment is the ultimate nourishment for body, mind, and soul. It is the ultimate freedom and ecstasy of life.” – Amit Ray
104. “When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.” – Stephen Richards
105. “Spiritually is a brave search for the truth about existence, fearlessly peering into the mysterious nature of life.” – Unknown
106. “If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.” – Brené Brown
107. “Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
108. “God has a reason for allowing things to happen. We may never understand his wisdom, but we simply have to trust his will.” – Proverb
109. “Spirituality does not lie in meditating the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.” – Amit Ray
110. “…people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
111. “Bath, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.” – Ambrose Bierce
112. “A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.” – Rita Mae Brown
113. “Looking behind I am filled with gratitude. Looking forward I am filled with vision. Looking upwards I am filled with strength.” – Quero Apache Prayer
114. “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
115. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – E.E. Cummings
116. “We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.” – Peter Kreeft
117. “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
118. “Spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being.” – Elizabeth Lesser
119. “Religion, science, and spirituality help us make sense of the world. Life without at least one of them is a lonely and confusing place.” – Naval Ravikant
120. “How cool is it that the same God who created mountains and oceans and galaxies looked at you and thought the world needed one of you too.” – Unknown
121. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” – Unknown
122. “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
123. “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
124. “What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope.” – Thomas Merton
125. “In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.” – James Ishmael Ford
126. “Be tolerant of those who are lost on their path. Ignorance, conceit, anger, jealousy and greed stem from a lost soul. Pray that they will find guidance.” – Elder Wisdom
127. “What I’m asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.” – Sam Harris
128. “The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and that is what needs to be nourished with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.” – Awakenings
129. “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
130. “Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, ‘Thy will be done.’ We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.” – Swami Vivekananda
131. “Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are.” – Karen Maezen Miller
132. “Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.” – Pramahansa
133. “Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer.” – Kripalvanandji
134. “Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.” – Tom Head
135. “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
136. “The more you transform your life from the material to the spiritual domain, the less you become afraid of death. A person who lives a truly spiritual life has no fear of death.” – Leo Tolstoy
137. “We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.” – Sam Harris
138. “It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control.” – Oprah Winfrey
139. “Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices.” – Santa Teresa de Jesús
140. “Your life is your spiritual path. It’s what’s right in front of you. You can’t live anyone else’s life. The task is to live yours and stop trying to copy one you think looks better.” – Sandy Nathan
Hopefully, this list of spiritual quotes, sayings, and proverbs has helped you to clarify your thoughts, shine a light on your being, and allow you to become more in touch with yourself.
If you want to learn more about spirituality and how to bring it in your daily life, this is a really great starting point!