Spiritual Quotes & Sayings

Face life..

2012-05-24T12:23:00.000-07:00

The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it- exactly and completely.

- Dainin Katagiri

Encouragement

2012-04-23T04:53:00.000-07:00

Spiritual encouragement quotes, sayings & poems:

God knows best
Our Father knows what's best for us,
So why should we complain ...
We always want the sunshine,
But He knows there must be rain.

We love the sound of laughter
And the merriment of cheer;
But our hearts would lose their tenderness
If we never shed a tear.

Our Father tests us often
With suffering and with sorrow;
He tests us, not to punish us,
But to help us meet "tomorrow."

For growing trees are strengthened
When they withstand the storm;
And the sharp cut of the chisel
Gives the marble grace and form.

God never hurts us needlessly,
And He never wastes our pain;
For every loss He sends to us
Is followed by rich gain.

And when we count the blessings
That God has so freely sent;
We will find no cause for murmuring
And no time to lament.

For Our Father loves His children,
And to Him all things are plain;
So He never sends us "pleasure"
When the "soul's deep need is pain."

So whenever we are troubled,
And when everything goes wrong,
It is just God working in us
To make "our spirits strong.

- Helen Steiner Rice

There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power. - Prentice Mulford

Some people are always grumbling that roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. - Alphonse Karr

The life of your dreams, everything you would love to be, do or have,
has always been closer to you than you knew...
because the power to everything you want is inside you. - Rhonda Byrne

Great hopes make great men. - Thomas Fuller

About Women

2012-04-23T02:30:00.003-07:00

Spiritual quotes and sayings about women:

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. - Proverbs 31:30

He who has realized God does not look upon a woman with the eye of lust; so he is not afraid of her. He perceives clearly that women are but so many aspects of the Divine Mother. He worships them all as the Mother Herself. - Sri Ramakrishna Paramashamsa

To be feminine is to become passive, to be feminine is to allow; to be feminine is to wait, to be feminine is not to be in a hurry and tense; to be feminine is to be in love. - Osho

About death

2012-03-16T04:12:00.003-07:00

Spiritual quotes about death and prayer:

We give back to you, O God, those whom you gave to us. You did not lose them when you gave them to us, and we do not lose them by their return to you. Your dear son has taught us that life is eternal, and love cannot die. So death is only an horizon, and an horizon is only the limit of our sight. Open our eyes to see more clearly, and draw us closer to you that we may know that we are nearer to our loved ones, who are with you. You have told us that you are preparing a place for us; prepare us also for that place, that where you are we may also be always, O dear Lord of life and death.

- William Penn

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The reality of my life cannot die
for I am indestructible consciousness.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

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Every man dies - Not every man really lives.
-William Ross Wallace

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I die daily.

- Saint Paul

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I look at life as a gift of God.
Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.

- Joyce Cary

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Death is not the end.
Death can never be the end.
Death is the road.
Life is the traveller.
The Soul is the Guide.

-Sri Chinmoy

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When you leave the body at the time of death, you have nothing to worry about. Death simply means separation of the mind and soul from the body.

- Master Charan Singh
(To know more about Him in Wikipedia, please click here)

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I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

- Rumi

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If you don't realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king. Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready. The great Tao flows everywhere..

- Lao Tzu

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Death is like a gate you will pass through. Your body will be gone but you will be in every other respect the same. If you have a violent temper, you will not leave it behind at death with your physical body. Your violent temper will remain with you until you conquer it. If in your present life you have observed the laws of healthful living, in your next incarnation you will possess a healthy body. The last portion of life is more important than the first, because what you are at the end of this life is what you will be at the beginning of the next.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

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Other link for spiritual quotes on death:

http://spiritualqns.blogspot.com/2011/02/rumi-on-death.html

Quotes For Women

2011-10-10T02:07:00.000-07:00

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Prayer Quotes

2011-09-12T13:47:00.000-07:00

Prayer Quotes: What is true prayer?

Real prayer is not by the lips, not by set words. It comes from the heart, and the heart knows the eloquence of silence. The real prayer is surrender to His (the Lord's) will.

- Master Charan Singh
(To know more about Him in Wikipedia, please click here)

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Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.
- Anonymous

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Henry David Thoreau on Fame, Money & Truth

2011-05-17T22:18:00.000-07:00

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau

On Love

2011-04-28T12:16:00.000-07:00

Love spiritual quotes and sayings:-

Difference between Spiritual Love and Worldly Love:

The difference in spiritual love and worldly love is this: in spiritual love you are not conscious of anybody except the object of your love, except your Master or the Lord. In worldly love, you are always conscious of others, there is an instinct of possession, and then jealousy comes in when you are conscious of others. In spiritual love, there can be no jealousy, for you have forgotten the whole world; whether it exists for you or not, you are just in Him. That is the difference.

- Master Charan Singh
(To know more about Him in Wikipedia, please click here)

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Love rises in devotion, but falls down in passion.
- Master Charan Singh
(To know more about Him in Wikipedia, please click here)

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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

- Corinthians 13:4-8

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Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.

- Prophet Muhammad

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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

- Buddha

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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Jesus in Bible (Matthew 6.33)

2011-03-27T00:37:00.000-07:00

Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

- Jesus Christ

Confucius on Heaven

2011-03-07T06:31:00.000-08:00

Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius

On Happiness

2011-02-23T00:25:00.000-08:00

Lao Tzu on happiness :

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

- Lao Tzu

Rumi on death

2011-02-11T11:13:00.000-08:00

Die thou, O friend, before thy death
If thou desirest to live.

- Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Poem of encouragement

2011-01-17T00:26:00.000-08:00

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Quote about money by Paulo Coelho

2011-01-10T22:43:00.000-08:00

I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
- Paulo Coelho

Quote of the Buddha

2011-01-04T07:40:00.000-08:00

What we think, we become.
- Gautama Buddha

Quote of Kahlil Gibran

2011-01-02T03:25:00.000-08:00

They tell me : If you see a slave sleeping,
do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom.
I tell them : If you see a slave sleeping,
wake him up and explain to him freedom.

- Kahlil Gibran, as quoted in A Spiritual Treasury

Quote on Life by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

2011-01-01T13:30:00.000-08:00

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin