(noun) A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."
"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."
"Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same."
"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
"If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone."
"Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow."
"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too."
"Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star."
"A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."