Spiritual Strength Quotes:

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

- Adolf Loos

topic: Spiritual, Spiritual Strength, Ornamentation

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

- Elizabeth George

source: Elizabeth George (2005). “A Mom After God's Own Heart Growth and Study Guide: 10 Ways to Love Your Children”, p.31, Harvest House Publishers

topic: Spiritual, Degrees, Proportion, Spiritual Strength

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Spiritual Strength, Strength And Determination

Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed, and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

source: Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

topic: Spiritual, Blessed, Soul, Spiritual Strength, Offenders

The art of loving creates the unity which has unlimited spiritual strength, and that is the greatest need in the world today. Each one of us can make such a difference if we become humble, if we develop a service attitude, and if we develop the broad mind to see the oneness of all living beings.

- Radhanath Swami

source: "Unity Is Strength". Radhanath Swami's Lecture in Mumbai, www.radhanathswami.net.

topic: Spiritual, Art, Attitude, Spiritual Strength, Art Of Loving

Physical strength (hard work), mental strength (perseverance) and spiritual strength (love & acceptance) are the keys to continuous growth.

- Rickson Gracie

source: FaceBook post by Rickson Gracie from Dec 05, 2014

topic: Spiritual, Perseverance, Hard Work, Spiritual Strength, Love Acceptance

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Social Innovation, Souls In Love

Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead, an inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those storms with hope and serenity.

- Sam Ervin

source: Sam J. Ervin Jr. (2014). “Humor of a Country Lawyer”, p.88, UNC Press Books

topic: Spiritual, Religious, Angel, Storms Of Life, Spiritual Strength

Spiritual strength frequently comes through selfless service.

- Thomas S. Monson

source: Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

topic: Spiritual, Selfless, Selfless Service, Spiritual Strength

Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give.

- Henry B. Eyring

topic: Spiritual, Jesus, Giving, Spiritual Strength

If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.

- Boyd K. Packer

topic: Spiritual, Powerful, Prayer, Spiritual Strength

There are some whose Karma is such as to enable them to develop the purely spiritual faculties first of all -- to overleap the astral plane for the time, as it were; and when afterwards they make its acquaintance they have, if their spiritual development has been perfect, the immense advantage of dipping into it from above, with the aid of a spiritual insight which cannot be deceived and a spiritual strength which nothing can resist.

- Charles Webster Leadbeater

topic: Karma, Spiritual, Perfect, Spiritual Development, Spiritual Insight

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

topic: Spiritual, Passion, Loathing, Bad Manners, Spiritual Strength

The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Spiritual, Self, Secret, Spiritual Strength

I am aware there are books that instruct you on how to manipulate the market, stocks and people... they might even help you get money. But, let me caution you... when there is no spiritual growth... there is no spiritual strength... there is no lasting happiness... and, there is no real or lasting wealth.

- Bob Proctor

topic: Spiritual, Real, Book, Spiritual Strength, Lasting Happiness

Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

- Max Anders

topic: Spiritual, Faithful, Obedience, Spiritual Strength, Obedience To God

It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.

- Henry B. Eyring

topic: Spiritual, Heart, Soul, Unbreakable, Spiritual Strength

My young friends, ... not all the whirlwinds in life are of your own making. Some come because of the wrong choices of others, and some come just because this is mortality. You are His son or His daughter. He made your spirit strong and capable of being resilient to the whirlwinds of life. The whirlwinds in your youth, like the wind against a young tree, can increase your spiritual strength, preparing you for the years ahead.

- Neil L. Andersen

topic: Daughter, Spiritual, Strong, Spiritual Strength, Wrong Choices

The plague of pornography is swirling about us as never before. Pornography brings a vicious wake of immorality, broken homes, and broken lives. Pornography will sap spiritual strength to endure. Pornography is much like quicksand. You can become so easily trapped and overcome as soon as you step into it that you do not realize the severe danger. Most likely you will need assistance to get out of the quicksand of pornography. But how much better it is never to step into it. I plead with you to be careful and cautious.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

topic: Spiritual, Home, Broken, Spiritual Strength, Quicksand

Some of the sweetest spirits are housed in frail frames. Great spiritual strength is often developed by those with physical challenges precisely because they are challenged. Such individuals are entitled to all the blessings that God has in store for His faithful and obedient children.

- Russell M. Nelson

topic: Spiritual, Children, Blessing, Spiritual Strength

As we seek the Lord ever more diligently, we will surely find Him. We will see clearly that the Lord does not abandon His Church or His faithful Saints. Our eyes will be opened, and we will see Him open the windows of heaven and shower us with more of His light. We will find the spiritual strength to survive even during the darkest night.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Spiritual, Eye, Night, Spiritual Strength

This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

topic: Spiritual, Wall, Real, Spiritual Strength

If any influential nation had the great spiritual strength to lay down its arms and appear with clean hands before the world, the world would be changed. I see no evidence that any influential nations has such great spiritual strength and courage. Therefore disarmament will be a slow process, motivated by the wish to survive.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.101, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Spiritual, Hands, Wish, Spiritual Strength, Clean Hands

There is something eternal in the very nature of writing, as is so graphically illustrated by the scriptures themselves. In a very real sense, our properly written histories are a very important part of our family scripture and become a great source of spiritual strength to us and to our posterity

- John H. Groberg

topic: Spiritual, Real, Writing, Spiritual Strength, Written History

The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation...

- Yoshijiro Umezu

source: "Suicide Squads: Axis and Allied Special Attack Weapons of World War II" by Richard O'Neill, (p. 267), 1981.

topic: Spiritual, Lying, War, Spiritual Strength, Combining

Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church which relies for its spiritual strength and growth entirely upon seasons of "revival," will very soon have no genuine revivals to rely on. Our holy God will not conform His blessings to man's moods and moral caprice. If a church is declining, it may require a "revival" to restore it; but what need was there of its declining?

- Theodore L. Cuyler

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 149, 1895.

topic: Spiritual, Men, Blessing, Spiritual Strength, Holy God

The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.

- Allan Bloom

topic: Spiritual, Unity, Energy, Draining, Spiritual Strength

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

- Star Jones

topic: Spiritual, Emotional, Matter, Spiritual Strength, Emotional Strength

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

- Jimmy Carter

source: United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Graduation, Spiritual Strength, High School Teachers

I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has no morals; and with no moral restraints man will destroy himself ecologically, militarily, or in some other way. Only God can give a person moral restraints and spiritual strength.

- Billy Graham

topic: Running, Spiritual, Horse, Spiritual Strength

From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey pioneer courage, loyalty, strength of purpose and freedom." The trumpet motive in the closing Allegro "is a call of defiance to the very elements themselves that had the temerity to dispute the spiritual strength and courage of the golden city of the West."

- Meredith Willson

topic: Loyalty, Spiritual, Cities, Spiritual Strength

Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude-they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than physical conditioning, had to be stored up before a race.

- Herb Elliott

topic: Running, Spiritual, Ocean, Spiritual Strength

Judo is the way to the most effective use of both physical and spiritual strength. By training you in attacks and defenses it refines your body and your soul and helps you make the spiritual essence of Judo a part of your very being. In this way you are able to perfect yourself and contribute something of value to the world. This is the final goal of Judo discipline.

- Kano Jigoro

source: "Dynamic Judo". Book by Kazuzo Kudo, 1967.

topic: Spiritual, Essence, Perfect, Spiritual Strength, Judo

Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace.

- Watchman Nee

topic: Spiritual, Hands, Grace, Spiritual Strength, Hands Of God

Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Spiritual, Art, Husband, Spiritual Strength, Weakening

It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer.

- Belle S. Spafford

source: Belle S. Spafford (1971). “Women in today's world”

topic: Spiritual, Prayer, Children, Spiritual Strength

All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies His lonely audience to none. Its secrets are holy; its asylum, inviolate; its consolations, sure; and all are open to the simple heart-word, "Thou art my hiding-place.

- James Martineau

topic: Spiritual, Lonely, Art, Spiritual Strength, Hiding Place

Trying to change the world is like trying to straighten the curly tail of a dog. Try as you might, it will still go hack to its natural curl. Your hands will become stronger from the exercise of trying to straighten the curly tail. Although you max' not he able to change the world, you would have acquired more spiritual strength within - and that alone will make a difference in the world.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

source: Source: www.edgemagazine.net

topic: Spiritual, Dog, Exercise, Spiritual Strength, Strength Within

What is the spirituality we need for the 21st century? We face a choice: to retire from this fray into some marshmallow paradise where we can massage away the heat of the day, the questions of the time, the injustice of the age, and live like pious moles in the heart of a twisted world. Or, we can gather our strength - our spiritual strength - for the struggle it will take to wake up from this pious sleep.

- Joan D. Chittister

topic: Spiritual, Struggle, Heart, Marshmallow, Spiritual Strength

Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

source: "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973.

topic: Spiritual, Self, Imagination, Spiritual Strength, Self Justification

Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give us the spiritual strength and the incentive to strengthen our political and social and economic position right here in America, and to fight for the things that are ours by right here on this continent.

- Malcolm X

source: Source: nyx.uky.edu

topic: Spiritual, Philosophical, Mean, Spiritual Strength

It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or spiritual strength to believe that for which one has no evidence, neither a priori evidence as in math, nor a posteriori evidence as in science. . . . It's a violation almost immoral in its transgressiveness to shirk the responsibilities of rationality.

- Rebecca Goldstein

topic: Spiritual, Philosophy, Believe, Spiritual Strength, Studying Philosophy

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Spiritual, Temptation, Knows, Spiritual Strength

None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.

- Thomas Watson, Jr.

topic: Being Strong, Hope, Spiritual, Spiritual Strength, Moral Courage