Quotes about Spirituality
And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers… and the women my sisters and lovers
— Walt Whitman
I depart as air .... I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.
— Walt Whitman
He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.
— Walt Whitman
Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
— Walt Whitman
From imperfection's murkiest cloud, Darts always forth one ray of perfect light, One flash of Heaven's glory. -from Song of the Universal
— Walt Whitman
Clear and sweet is my soul . . . . and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack
— Walt Whitman
There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
— Walt Whitman
And I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul, Because having look'd at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one nor any particle of one but has reference to the soul.
— Walt Whitman
The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me.
— Walt Whitman
I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me
— Walt Whitman
Death and immortality were but two aspects of the same blessed hope to this man, who poured out his life in a turgid fount of ecstatic joy in living:
— Walt Whitman
If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.
— Wanda Brunstetter