Top 1200 Profound Spiritual Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Life can be beautiful, profound, and awe-inspiring, even without an irate god threatening us with eternal torment.

Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.

The greatest need you and I have-the greatest need of collective humanity-is renovation of our heart. That spiritual place with in us from which outlook, choices, and actions come has been formed by a world away from God. Now it must be transformed. Indeed, the only hope of humanity lies in the fact that, as our spiritual dimension has been formed, so it also can be transformed.

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

Facing ultimate destruction and the end of the world, human society will undergo extreme, complex, and profound transformations.

The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. Man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. If man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

Getting married has shifted my focus, in such a profound way. You just realize, "Oh, I can't be so selfish anymore. There's someone else."

Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.

Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.

His (God) love is not a passing fancy or superficial emotion; it is a profound and unshakable commitment that seeks what is best for us.

The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything that you do in life is in preparation for your great meeting. This great meeting is your meeting with your Lord, which is absolutely inevitable.

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

Standup is like shorthand. Every bit must be both brief and profound or the audience will lose interest.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

The discoveries of the last couple decades are showing that properties of a self do actually inhere in matter, that matter seems to have properties of self-organization and life, even intelligence, consciousness. I can't say that science has proved these things, but it at least suggests the possibility. As we re-invest the world with sacredness, "spiritual" comes to mean something very different. If only a human being has these qualities, then spiritual work is inner. It's all about your own consciousness.

When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.

Know that you are a spark of God and can exist fully only within the realization of that profound truth. As such, you are a light and inspiration to others.

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

My eyebrows make a more profound impact on [other] people than they do on me... I just let 'em grow.

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness that's in high places." It's in "high places" that the plot against Black and Brown, and poor White is going on; it's spiritual wickedness that's way up in the ruling classes of religious people who don't want to see the little man rise. It's the principalities and the powers.

Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda. The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis.

My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.

Anyone who is not on your same evolutionary and spiritual frequency will distance himself from you, while all those who are on the same evolutionary and spiritual frequency as you will come closer to you; you will see how amazing it is to discover that everyone who needs to be by your side will ultimately appear in your life in the most spontaneous and divine manner. That's how powerful the mind is

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give.

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.

A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.

You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.

There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.

Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

During teenager times, the feelings of longing is perhaps at its most strong and profound because everything feels multiplied by ten.

That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every five years because it's chic to say it.

Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.

I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful.

The ordinance of confirming a new member of the Church and bestowing the gift of the Holy Ghost is both simple and profound.

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

He who perceives in the spiritual world must know that at times Imaginations are assigned to him which at first he must forego understanding; he must receive them as Imaginations and let them ripen in his soul as such. In spiritual experience, much depends on a man having the patience to make observations, at first to simply accept them, and to wait with understanding them until the right moment arrives.

The revolution in deep nets has been very profound. It definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.

We are never more than a belief away from our greatest love, deepest healing, and most profound miracles.

We want to blame people who have brain disorders - they should somehow be able to magically rise above it. It's a profound misconception.

Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation.

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.

We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives

In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause.

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

I adore India, its culture, and all the beauty of the nation. My father is from Jammu, and he's had a profound influence on my mindset and way of being.

Spirituality is complicated. I do not belong to any particular religious group, but I have profound respect for people who devote their lives to faith.