Spiritual quotes, with sources

Be still, and know that I am God.

Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.

The test of all happiness is gratitude; and I felt grateful, though I hardly knew to whom.

Thou shalt not be overcome.

God is the breath of all breath.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

If God be for us, who can be against us?

The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

The Formless is in the midst of all forms.

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light.

Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.

Be still, my heart, these great trees are prayers.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

God’s great power is in the gentle breeze, not in the storm.

Because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.

Never be afraid of the moments—thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

The rising and the setting are one to me; all contradictions are solved.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields.

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grew.

Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds.

Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic.

Love was His meaning.

God is being; death is nowhere!

God never made an ugly landscape.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

Self is a sea boundless and measureless.

Allah hath set a measure for all things.

Nothing except the soul is worthy of wonder.

Let the weary come and lay his burdens here!

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Art is a step from nature toward the Infinite.

The thing that God imagines, that thing exists.

The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled.

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume.

There is nothing but myself, what can frighten me?

God enters by a private door into every individual.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Thy Lord hath not forsaken thee nor doth He hate thee.

Thou art not far from us, even when we be far from Thee.

In a pleasant spring morning all men’s sins are forgiven.

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

Whosoever putteth his trust in Allah, He will suffice him.

Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never.

Act, act in the living present! Heart within, and God o’erhead!

I shall die again and again to know that life is inexhaustible.

Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

He prayeth best, who loveth best all things both great and small.

God, of Thy Goodness, give me Thyself: for Thou art enough to me.

Wretch, you are carrying about a god with you, and you know it not.

What is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ether?

A little lifting up of the heart and a remembrance of God suffices.

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

This life is the crossing of a sea, where we meet in the same narrow ship.

Whosoever keepeth his duty to Allah, Allah will appoint a way out for him.

The shortest way to go straight to God was by a continual exercise of love.

You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins.

Seek help in patience and prayer; and truly it is hard save for the humble-minded.

We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already.

You hear not with the ears, but with the mind; not with the mind, but with your soul.

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

If you realize that you are free, you are free this moment.

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.

As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Lo! we are Allah’s and lo! unto Him we are returning.

My mercy embraceth all things.

Verily in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest!

Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth.

In your body is the garden of flowers.

You are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall have abundance of peace.

Greater is Thy care for me than all the care which I am able to take for myself.

One does not become holy all at once.

God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.

Love is a Divine gift, not anything that can be acquired.