Spiritual Quotes - Page 337

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

By spiritual training I mean education of the heart.

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

Everyone holds a piece of the truth.

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.

Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes.

I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.

What is faith if it is not translated into action?

I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.

I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?