Spiritual Quotes

Truth

To know the Truth is to be in harmony with the Infinite and Omnipotent power. To know the truth is, therefore, to connect yourself with a power which is irresistible and which will sweep away every kind of discord, inharmony, doubt, or error of any kind, because the "Truth is mighty and will prevail." —Charles Haanel, The Master Key System

Concentrate on the Truth. Try to realize that the Truth shall make you free. That is, nothing can permanently stand in the way of your perfect success when you learn to apply the scientifically correct thought methods and principles. Realize that you are externalizing in your environment your inherent soul potencies. Realize that the Silence offers an ever available and almost unlimited opportunity for awakening the highest conception of Truth. —Charles Haanel, The Master Key System

The whole range...of the theory and practice of any system of metaphysics consists in knowing the Truth concerning yourself and the world in which you live; in knowing that in order to express harmony, you must think harmony; in order to express health you must think health; and in order to express abundance you must think abundance. To do this you must reverse the evidence of the senses. When you come to know that every form of disease, sickness, lack, and limitation are simply the result of wrong thinking, you will have come to know "the Truth which shall make you free." —Charles Haanel, The Master Key System

All thought is a form of energy, a rate of vibration, but a thought of the Truth is the highest rate of vibration known and consequently destroys every form of error in exactly the same way that light destroys darkness; no form of error can exist when the "Truth" appears, so that your entire mental work consists in coming into an understanding of the Truth. This will enable you to overcome every form of lack, limitation, or disease of any kind. —Charles Haanel, The Master Key System

We can get no understanding of the truth from the world without; the world without is relative only. Truth is absolute. We must therefore find it in the "world within." —Charles Haanel, The Master Key System

As thought is creative, and the truth is the highest and most perfect thought which anyone can think. It is self-evident that to think the truth is to create that which is true and it is again evident that when truth comes into being, that which is false must cease to be. —Charles Haanel, The Master Key System

Heretofore we have sought knowledge and help from outside sources, not knowing that the source of all knowledge, the very Spirit of truth, is lying latent within each one of us, waiting to be called on to teach us the truth about all things —most marvelous of teachers, and everywhere present, without money or price! —H. Emilie Cady, Lessons in Truth

Still the intellect for the time being, and let universal Mind speak to you; and when it speaks, though it be but a "still small voice" (1 Kings 19:12), you will know that what it says is Truth. How will you know? You will know just as you know that you are alive. All the argument in the world to convince you against Truth that comes to you through direct revelation will fall flat and harmless at your side. And the Truth that you know, not simply believe, you can use to help others. That which comes forth through your spirit will reach the very innermost spirit of him to whom you speak. —H. Emilie Cady, Lessons in Truth

Some people who have been making a special study of the mind find it a fact that certain wrong or false beliefs held by us are really the cause of all sorts of trouble—physical, moral, and financial. They have learned that wrong beliefs arise only in the human mind; they have learned and actually proved that we can, by a persistent effort of the will, change the beliefs, and by this means alone entirely change our troublesome circumstances and bodily conditions. —H. Emilie Cady, Lessons in Truth

Denial is the first practical step toward wiping out of our minds the mistaken beliefs of a lifetime —the beliefs that have made such sad havoc of our lives. By denial we mean declaring not to be true a thing that seems true. Negative appearances are directly opposed to the teachings of Truth. —H. Emilie Cady, Lessons in Truth

Plans that are not built on truth produce discordant vibrations and are therefore self-destructive. Never try to build until you can build right. It is a waste of time to do anything else. You may temporarily put aside your desire to do right, but its true vibrations will interfere with your unjust plans until you are forced back into righteous paths of power. —Theron Q. Dumont, The Power of Concentration

It is the concentration of the mind upon Spirit that reveals the truth about the many situations that meet us in our daily contacts. —Charles Fillmore, Teach Us to Pray

You must learn to see the underlying TRUTH in all things; you must see beneath all seemingly wrong conditions the Great One Life ever moving forward toward fuller expression and more complete happiness. —Wallace Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich

It is a fatal delusion to think that life is detached from the momentary thought and act, and not to understand that the passing thought and deed is the foundation and substance of life. When this is fully understood all things are seen as sacred, and every act becomes religious. Truth is wrapped up in infinitesimal details. —James Allen, Byways of Blessedness

A master can say: "Here is the path," but he can neither compel you to walk it nor walk it for you. You must put forth your own efforts, must achieve by your own strength, must make his truth your truth by your own unaided exertions; you must implicitly trust yourself. —James Allen, Byways of Blessedness

Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal? In reality, there are as many religions as there are individuals. —Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Home Rule

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others too. —Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Home Rule

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody's property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls. Who can lay a special claim to it? But it has to be made practical, to be made simple (for the highest truths are always simple), so that it may penetrate every pore of human society, and become the property of the highest intellects and the commonest minds, of the man, woman, and child at the same time. —Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, (8 Vol. set), Volume 2

That society is the greatest where the highest truths become practical.... Stand up, men and women, in this spirit, dare to believe in the Truth, dare to practice the Truth!... Practice that boldness which dares know the Truth, which dares show the Truth in life, which does not quake before death, nay, welcomes death, makes a man know that he is the Spirit, that, in the whole universe, nothing can kill him. Then you will be free. Then you will know your real Soul. —Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, (8 Vol. set), Volume 2

You remember in the Old Testament where Moses was told, "Take off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground." We must always approach the study of religion with that reverent attitude. He who comes with a pure heart and a reverent attitude, his heart will be opened; the doors will open for him, and he will see the truth. If you come with intellect only, you can have a little intellectual gymnastics, intellectual theories, but not truth. Truth has such a face that anyone who sees that face becomes convinced. The sun does not require any torch to show it; the sun is self-effulgent.... We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth. —Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, (8 Vol. set), Volume 1

When the disciples of Buddha told him of a man who had performed a so-called miracle — had taken a bowl from a great height without touching it — and showed him the bowl, he took it and crushed it under his feet and told them never to build their faith on miracles, but to look for truth in everlasting principles. He taught them the true inner light — the light of the spirit, which is the only safe light to go by. Miracles are only stumbling-blocks. Let us brush them aside. —Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, (8 Vol. set), Volume 1

He who has realized Truth, goes forth as a sower of the seeds of goodness, purity, love, and peace, without expectancy and never looking for results, knowing that there is the Great Overruling Law which brings about its own harvest in due time. —James Allen, Morning and Evening Thoughts