Definition of Spiritual

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Spiritual

Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being.

Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.

Of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits.

Of or pertaining to the soul or its affections as influenced by the Spirit; controlled and inspired by the divine Spirit; proceeding from the Holy Spirit; pure; holy; divine; heavenly-minded; -- opposed to carnal.

Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.

A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2.

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Spiritual Quotations

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Stephen Covey

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Mohandas Gandhi

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph Campbell

Spiritual Translations

spiritual in Dutch is geestelijk
spiritual in German is geistlich
spiritual in Portuguese is espiritual

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