Profound Spiritual Quotes:

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

- Carl Sagan

topic: God, Spiritual, Philosophy, Pseudoscience, Interfaith

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Faith, Strong, Kings, Inspiring Movie, Travel Light

Christmas has a certain universal appeal that gives it meaning well beyond a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but Christians have a special duty to experience its sacred and profound spiritual significance and non-Christians have a duty to treat the day with special respect.

- Michael Josephson

topic: Christmas, Christian, Spiritual, Jesus Birth, Meaning Well

I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.

- Meghan O'Rourke

topic: Spiritual, Grief, Reality, Profound Spiritual, Reality Of Death

The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.

- Andrew Cohen

topic: Spiritual, Freedom, Lying, Profound Spiritual, Spiritual Experience

Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at all, what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith.

- Chris Matthews

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Christian, Spiritual, Religious, Spiritual Faith, John Paul

More than ever I find myself in the hands of God. This (illness) is what I have wanted all my life from my youth. But now there is a difference; the initiative is entirely with God. It is indeed a profound spiritual experience to know and feel myself so totally in God’s hands.

- Pedro Arrupe

topic: Spiritual, Hands, Differences, Profound Spiritual

There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Spiritual, Kings, Gay, Political Rhetoric, Profound Spiritual

The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church is no longer able to assuage. So a book which suggests that there is a spiritual significance to the Christian story but that this has been suppressed by the church undoubtedly appeals to those who are anxious to square this circle.

- Melanie Phillips

topic: Christian, Spiritual, Book, Spiritual Hunger, Western World

A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history. On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness ... will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions.

- Andrew Harvey

topic: Spiritual, Suicidal, Self, Profound Spiritual, Juggernaut

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

- Nathaniel Branden

topic: Spiritual, Self Esteem, Luxury, Profound Spiritual

This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.

- Anne Lamott

source: Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, Anchor

topic: Spiritual, Wind, Giving, Profound Spiritual, Guise

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

- Clara Zetkin

topic: Spiritual, Women, Rights, Profound Spiritual