Top 100 Spiritual Quotes (by Matshona Dhliwayo)

Matshona T Dhliwayo
5 min readApr 24, 2024

Top 100 Spiritual Quotes (by Matshona Dhliwayo)

1. “The power of love holds the world together. The love of power tears the universe apart.”

2. “The power of love introduces you to light. The love of power introduces you to darkness.”

3. “The love of power is spiritual poverty. The power of love is spiritual wealth.”

4. “The love of power rests in darkness; the power of love rests in light.”

5. “The love of power is limited; the power of love is limitless.”

6. “The love of power is a river; the power of love is an ocean.”

7. “The love of power rewards you temporarily; the power of love rewards you permanently.”

8. “The love of power perpetuates humanity; the power of love perpetuates divinity.”

9. “Materialism is a god whose religion is commercialism.”

10. “Worldly peace is the wealth around you. Spiritual peace is the wealth inside of you.”

11. “Worldly peace seeks, spiritual peace finds.”

12. “Worldly peace is finite, spiritual peace is infinite.”

13. “For harmony, look around you. For peace, look within you.”

14. “Where there is health there is wealth. Where there is wealth there isn’t necessarily wealth.”

15. “The best wealth is health. The greatest wealth is self.”

16. “Good health is the key to great wealth.”

17. “Healing is health. Health is healing.”

18. “To be wealthy, make a living. To be healthy, make a life.”

19. “Making a living should not stop you from making a life.”

20. “The wealthy are clever, the healthy are wise.”

21. “Healing is strength; health is power.”

22. “Laugh as much as you can, for as long as you can, and as best as you can.”

23. “Make a living, then make a life.”

24. “Maturity takes greater strength than growth.”

25. “To be clever, grow. To be wise, mature.”

26. “Heal the world. Heal the sky. Heal the universe.”

27. “Heal now. Heal today. Heal tomorrow. Heal forever.”

28. “Healing is the wealth around you. Health is the wealth inside of you.”

29. “The humanity you seek for others you find for yourself.”

30. “The best light is compassion. The worst darkness is vengeance.”

31. “The fear of violence is the beginning of peace.”

32. “The certainty of destruction is greater than the speculation of creation.”

33. “Starting peace is better than starting wars.”

34. “Earthly love is a candle; heavenly love is a flame.”

35. “Love makes difficult things easy; hatred makes easy things difficult.”

36. “Loves virtues are greater than hatreds vices.”

37. “To be vengeful is human; to be forgiving is divine.”

38. “To be cruel is human; to be kind is divine.”

39. “Knowing how to forgive is intelligence; knowing who to forgive is wisdom.”

40. “You are greater than who you forgave and lesser than who forgave you.”

41. “Raise your humanity so high that violence cannot reach it.”

42. “Fear is the enemy of love. Hatred is the enemy of compassion.”

43. “To be second among saints is better than to be first among sinners.”

44. “To die nobly is better than to live dishonorably.”

45. “Innocence is a pearl of virtue.”

46. “Justice is virtues strength; mercy is virtues power.”

47. “Light is honored for its virtues; darkness is honored for its vices.”

48. “The world knows somethings; the universe knows everything.”

49. “To know how rich the world is, count its saints. To know how poor the world is, count its sinners.”

50. “Protect the innocent. Judge the guilty. Forgive the repentant.”

51. “Right is the enemy of wrong. Wrong is the enemy of right.”

52. “Not all victims are weak, not all victimizers are strong.”

53. “Sinners take too much; saints give too much.”

54. “Forgiving saints is easier than forgiving sinners.”

55. “Knowing who to forgive is clever; knowing who not to forgive is wise.”

56. “Expect little from vengeance; expect much from justice.”

57. “Vengeance costs too much; compassion costs too little.”

58. “Love is in an eternal struggle with hatred.”

59. “Pardon, but don’t expect to be pardoned.”

60. “Vengeance is the ugliest devil; compassion is the loveliest angel.”

61. “It is better for the world to die a natural death than a spiritual one.”

62. “When love dies, men fall. When hatred dies, men soar.”

63. “Learn how to love. Learn how not to hate.”

64. “Love takes a while to grow, but can die in an instant.”

65. “Hate violence. Love peace. Shun violence. Embrace peace.”

66. “Violence is proof of the world’s darkness; humanity is evidence of the universes light.”

67. “Compassion is the oldest saint; vengeance is the oldest sinner.”

68. “Harming nature destroys the world; healing nature preserves the universe.”

69. “Healing nature is clever; healing creation is wise.”

70. “Knowing peace is intelligence; knowing justice is wisdom.”

71. “Seeking peace is intelligence; seeking justice is wisdom.”

72. “World peace is true riches; world harmony is true wealth.”

73. “World peace is our superpower; world harmony is our higher power.”

74. “Declare war on intolerance, not the intolerant. Declare war on prejudice, not the prejudiced.”

75. “Love’s strengths are greater than hatred’s weaknesses.”

76. “The depths of hatred are no match for the heights of love.”

77. “Love will never be empty, hatred will never be full.”

78. “Peace knows the world, peace is the way.”

79. “Uniting the world is nobler than dividing it. Dividing the world is wiser than uniting it.”

80. “Stand for equality. Stand for diversity. Stand for humanity.”

81. “Promote world peace. Promote world harmony. Promote world unity.”

82. “Not forgiving is better than not wanting to forgive.”

83. “Believe in love, not religion.”

84. “Love unites. Hatred divides.”

85. “Love achieves more in one day than hatred in a lifetime.”

86. “Freedom was the revolution. Freedom is the revolution. Freedom will be the revolution.”

87. “Be the healer you were born to be.”

88. “For world peace, fight for justice. For world harmony, fight for unity.”

89. “World peace is the door to world harmony. World harmony is the door to world unity.”

90. “When you heal yourself, you heal others.”

91. “Healing others heals you.”

92. “Heal others the way you want to be healed.”

93. “Heal one and you heal everyone.”

94. “A step towards justice is a leap towards peace.”

95. “Love alone can conquer hatred.”

96. “Love is the key, turn it. Love is the door, enter it. Love is the destination, enjoy it.”

97. “World peace is finite; world ignorance is infinite.”

98. “The universe knows too much; the world knows too little.”

99. “When the world weeps, the universe sheds tears.”

100. “A beautiful world is temporary; a beautiful universe is forever.”

“When you no longer fear the dark, you have become the light.”

~Matshona Dhliwayo

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Matshona T Dhliwayo

Contributor for African Leadership Magazine, The CEO Magazine, Health Magazine, The African Union, and other internationally renowned magazines.