Spiritual Insight Quotes

“The soul was the first temple; love was the first religion.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“It is easier to move mountains using God's hands.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Nothing is more significant in Jesus’ parables than his appeal to Common Sense. What a pity that this term has been abused to mean no more than sweet reasonableness or, worse, public opinion. Rightly understood, it means the deep awareness that all have in common and from which anything sensible must flow. We could even say that Common Sense is God’s Holy Spirit in the human heart. And here Jesus differs from the prophets. They appealed to the authority of God as standing behind them—'Thus speaks the Lord God. …' Jesus, in contrast, appeals to Common Sense, to the authority of God in the hearts of his hearers. No wonder the people felt empowered. 'This man speaks with authority,' they said, and they added, 'not like the Scribes' (Mark 1:22), not like the authorities of cultural religion. ... As the very opposite to conventional thinking, Common Sense was, and still is, subversive to authoritarian structures and intolerable to their religious as well as political representatives.”
― David Steindl-Rast, Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed

“You are God's chisel; it is you He uses to create masterpieces.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Light cannot enter a dark room without illumining it.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“In the face of all the uncertainties that surround any decision, the wise man acts in the light of his best judgment illumined by the integrity of his profoundest spiritual insights. Then the rest is in the hands of the future and in the mind of God. The possibility of error, of profound and terrible error, is at once the height and the depth of man’s freedom. For this, God be praised!”
― Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart

“Jesus being born as a baby was God's way of laughing at a world trying to grow up too quickly.”
― Steven James, Sailing Between the Stars: Musings on the Mysteries of Faith

“The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Raise your love so high that anger cannot reach it.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Joy is God's smile; love is God's laughter.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If love was a crime, God would encourage us all to go to prison.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The most beautiful temple in the universe is your soul; that is why God wants to dwell in it.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Walking on water requires feet of faith.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The greatest treasures are not found in museums, but in our hearts.”
― Matshona Dhiliwayo

“Pray for your needs, not your greed.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If God had a flower for each moment He thought of you, the whole universe would be a garden.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Don't try moving mountains God ordained you to climb.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“God is the world's oldest poet; love is the world's oldest poem.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Love sees more with its eyes closed than hate with its eyes open.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“It is impossible for light to bow before darkness.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Intuition is spiritual insight and direct spiritual communication that transcends the physical world. Its spiritual aspect operates without limitations and physical boundaries and is instantaneous.”
― Zamm Zamudio, Intuition: Discover the Inner Workings of our World - Book 1

“Spirit can only communicate with us on our current level of understanding. Our spiritual habits determine what that level will be.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Entire wars have been based on our inability to see.”
― Natalie Goldberg, The Great Failure: A Bartender, A Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth

“Alas, none of our divine revelations arrive with footnotes or explanations.”
― Imam Jamal Rahman, Sacred Laughter of the Sufis: Awakening the Soul with the Mulla's Comic Teaching Stories and Other Islamic Wisdom

“Wake up, Leo! And what after Citizen Science? Your experiences are dictated by your own consciousness.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor

“Now I know that somewhere inside of you, you understand this and are ready to forgive and let go.”
― Calvin Niles, The Sun Rises in Eastmoor