Spiritual Mentor Quotes

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Bill Bakula was my angel. In one moment in my life, he was sent by God to make me and my message of love be known. He was very smart. He was the master.

'Rabbi' means 'teacher,' and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.

In whosever presence you find peace of mind, devoid of fear, only that person can be your guru.

One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, . . . the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.

Spiritual Leader of the Nation

In the East, the guru never calls himself a guru.

The story, it's really important to The Ancient One that Doctor Strange does cut it because The Ancient One needs a successor, or certainly needs - you could say - a son. So The Ancient One is really invested in Doctor Strange, it's a very kind of primal relationship.

I like the idea of seeing Krishna as a baby, the way He's often depicted in India. And also Govinda, the cowherd boy. I like the idea that you can have Krishna as a baby and feel protective to Him, or as your friend, or as the guru or master - type figure.

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.

A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.

If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.

A guru is not a crutch, he is a bridge.

I've gone to great lengths not to be a guru. I think the notion of guruhood is utterly pathological, and I couldn't live that way. I am just a person.

Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

One does not become a guru by accident.

I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going on.

If you want to make a decision in life on what to do, but if you're trying systematically, through spiritual practice, through meditation, through the invocation of the name of God, to walk closer and closer in this life to Him, you need someone to guide you. And God has made it possible in Islam for this guidance to exist.

I honor Billy Graham. He is a category by himself.

I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.

When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy.

Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.