Spirituality Quotes

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On her religious faith and the categorizing of gay society: "Well, you know, I grew up going to church, but I was raised by my uncle who passed away with AIDS a couple of years ago. He was my mother`s best friend. And my mother`s cousin. He brought me to school every day. He helped me buy my prom dress. He made my clothes with my mother. He was like my nanny. He was my favorite person in the world. And you know, I never really mixed Christianity with how I felt about him. I am about faith and spirituality more so than religion. Doing right by others and not judging."

- Beyoncé Knowles

"Everyone wants to know about my spirituality, and it`s like, `that`s mine!`"

- Justin Timberlake

Really, any sense of spirituality, which I do have, really comes from the arts that are sort of my inspiration.

- Laura Linney

"I went through that adolescent crisis where you either jump into the river or jump into spirituality. I felt the call for a while; then I felt the normal pull of the world and the flesh." - PB, referring to his early life as a monk

- Peter Boyle

"I was raised a Catholic on the South Side of Chicago, and I felt I had to undo a lot of serious damage. But as I was getting older, I began coming off my absolutely young, arrogant, agnostic beliefs. I was thinking more about coming to terms with human spirituality."

- Robert Zemeckis

A lot of people over the years have been doing yoga and I think even more these days are expressing an interest in it. So there are a lot of manifestations of spirituality here in town.

- Ashley Judd

(Talking about meditation practices) It`s always difficult. To feel, rather than to think, to tap into that source and let it come through you. It takes courage. Because we feel it and then we get scared and we analyze it. We live in this thought web, we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source. *Laughs* I know this is all esoteric and weird.

- Ben Foster

Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.

- Christy Turlington

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

- Matthew Fox

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

- Reese Witherspoon

I`m studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

- Sandra Bernhard

So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.

- Susan Sarandon

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

- Wyclef Jean

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

- Danny Glover

In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it`s still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.

- James Welch

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people`s lives because I`m a journalist.

- Peter Jennings

Don`t be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

- Peter Jennings

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

- Bonnie Raitt

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

- Carl Sagan

I think there`s been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

- Dave Davies

I also work with the spirituality of people.

- Della Reese

My mother took refuge in her spirituality while my poor father was barely able to bring home enough money to keep food on the table.

- Esther Williams

I`m touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

- Leonard Nimoy

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don`t think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.

- Olympia Dukakis

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

- Noah Taylor

Ambassador Delenn is an extraordinary character. She combines so many different traits. She`s tough, but vulnerable... She`s strong, but feminine... She`s a pacifist, but can be militaristic... She has depth and spirituality, but can be funny and light at times... So yes, I think she`s a great role model - not only for women - but for everyone.

- Mira Furlan

My driving force is spirituality.

- Debra Wilson

The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.

- Phillip Noyce

We`ve been living with that song (Feels Like Today) for over two years. It`s got a different feel and a different message, a way of presenting today as the day to get over that struggle in your life. It`s a positive spiritual song, and being passionate about music and spirituality, we always tend to gravitate toward songs like that. It`s one of those that hit us right between the eyes.

- Rascal Flatts

Hopefully, what comes through is that it`s certainly about much more than eating disorders. It`s about four people battling the challenges of humanity '” the excitement, the successes, the pathos, the struggles with finding love and spirituality and careers that work.

- Eric Schaeffer

When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I`ve grown older, I`ve put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.

- Troy Perry

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

- Dennis Banks

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

- Daniel Berrigan

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

- Francis Schaeffer

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we`ll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we`re all one but continue to try to win.

- Neale Donald Walsch

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from `We`re right and you`re wrong.`

- Neale Donald Walsch

The new spirituality will bring about what I`m calling the `end of better.` And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I`ve been writing.

- Neale Donald Walsch

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching `We are all one.`

- Neale Donald Walsch

The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.

- Neale Donald Walsch

I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that`s not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.

- Neale Donald Walsch

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we`re not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.

- Neale Donald Walsch

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

- Barbara De Angelis

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

- Alejandra Castillo

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

- Alex Kogan

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

- Alice Glynn

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

- Allan Slater

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

- Amos Winter

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

- Andrea Wojtowicz

Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character.

- Andrea Wojtowicz

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

- Andreas Capellanus