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Spiritual Quotes & Scripture

80 hand-picked universal spiritual wisdom on peace, hope, faith, healing, gratitude, and love. Universal spiritual quotes drawn from many voices and traditions — offered to anyone, of any faith or none.

Spiritual Quotes

spiritual
faith
purpose

What you seek is seeking you.

Rumi
spiritual
healing
hope

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Rumi
spiritual
wisdom
spiritual-growth

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi
spiritual
wisdom
peace

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

Viktor Frankl
spiritual
purpose
strength

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche
spiritual
gratitude

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Eckhart Tolle
spiritual
peace
anxiety

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Eckhart Tolle
spiritual
peace
wisdom

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Ram Dass
spiritual
spiritual-growth
purpose

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
spiritual
hope
strength

Out of a mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Martin Luther King Jr.
spiritual
forgiveness
healing

When you forgive, you in no way change the past, but you sure do change the future.

Bernard Meltzer
spiritual
patience
wisdom

Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.

Joyce Meyer
spiritual
purpose
strength

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
spiritual
purpose
spiritual-growth

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Carl Jung
spiritual
gratitude
peace

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

Aesop
spiritual
forgiveness
healing

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Carrie Fisher
spiritual
purpose
love

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Rumi
spiritual
love
faith

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Rumi
spiritual
strength
purpose

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Rumi
spiritual
gratitude
peace

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift.

Eleanor Roosevelt (attributed)
spiritual
forgiveness
hope

When you forgive, you in no way change the past — but you sure do change the future.

Bernard Meltzer
spiritual
strength
purpose

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Joseph Campbell
spiritual
purpose
faith

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell
spiritual
strength
purpose

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot
spiritual
wisdom
peace

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.

Viktor Frankl
spiritual
spiritual-growth
strength

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor Frankl
spiritual
strength
spiritual-growth

What is to give light must endure burning.

Viktor Frankl
spiritual
love
gratitude

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama
spiritual
wisdom
gratitude

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Dalai Lama
spiritual
love
peace

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama
spiritual
peace
wisdom

Silence is sometimes the best answer.

Dalai Lama
spiritual
wisdom
patience

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

Dalai Lama
spiritual
anxiety
strength

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Corrie ten Boom
spiritual
forgiveness
love

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Mark Twain
spiritual
gratitude
peace

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Eckhart Tolle
spiritual
peace
gratitude

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Eckhart Tolle
spiritual
wisdom
peace

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Eckhart Tolle
spiritual
peace
gratitude

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

Eckhart Tolle
spiritual
hope
strength

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain.

Vivian Greene
spiritual
healing
strength

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Tori Amos
spiritual
healing
love

We can't heal the world today, but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, an act of kindness.

Mary Davis
spiritual
purpose
spiritual-growth

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Carl Jung
spiritual
wisdom
spiritual-growth

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Carl Jung
spiritual
anxiety
love

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you.

Anaïs Nin
spiritual
strength
purpose

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anaïs Nin
spiritual
patience
peace

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
spiritual
strength
spiritual-growth

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
spiritual
gratitude
spiritual-growth

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
spiritual
peace
strength

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
spiritual
purpose
hope

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau
spiritual
faith
hope

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Rabindranath Tagore
spiritual
peace
gratitude

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore
spiritual
purpose
strength

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Rabindranath Tagore
spiritual
strength
patience

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost
spiritual
wisdom
purpose

What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract.

Anonymous
spiritual
healing
peace

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes — including you.

Anne Lamott
spiritual
hope
faith

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Desmond Tutu
spiritual
forgiveness
love

Forgiving is not forgetting; it is actually remembering and not using your right to hit back.

Desmond Tutu
spiritual
forgiveness
hope

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Desmond Tutu
spiritual
love
patience

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

African proverb
spiritual
strength
patience

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

African proverb
spiritual
gratitude
peace

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

Aesop (attributed)
spiritual
strength
hope

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese proverb
spiritual
wisdom
faith

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Zen proverb
spiritual
patience
purpose

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching 64
spiritual
wisdom
spiritual-growth

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching 33
spiritual
patience
peace

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao Tzu
spiritual
spiritual-growth
faith

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Lao Tzu
spiritual
peace
strength

Silence is a source of great strength.

Lao Tzu
spiritual
gratitude
wisdom

He who knows he has enough is rich.

Lao Tzu
spiritual
anxiety
wisdom

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Jon Kabat-Zinn
spiritual
anxiety
wisdom

Worry is a misuse of the imagination.

Dan Zadra
spiritual
forgiveness
healing

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Lewis B. Smedes
spiritual
forgiveness
healing

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Carrie Fisher (attributed)
spiritual
forgiveness
peace

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear.

Nelson Mandela
spiritual
forgiveness
wisdom

He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.

George Herbert
spiritual
healing
love

Time does not heal all wounds, but love does.

Anonymous
spiritual
healing
love

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller
spiritual
healing
spiritual-growth

Tears water our growth.

William Shakespeare (attributed)
spiritual
healing
hope

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.

Orison Swett Marden