Spirituality vs. Morality — What's the Difference?

The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various connotations can be found alongside each other. Traditionally, spirituality referred to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape of man", oriented at "the image of God" as exemplified by the founders and sacred texts of the religions of the world.

Morality (from Latin: moralitas, lit. 'manner, character, proper behavior') is the differentiation of intentions, decisions and actions between those that are distinguished as proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong). Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion or culture, or it can derive from a standard that a person believes should be universal.

The state, quality, or fact of being spiritual.

The quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct

A religious belief or manner of pursuing a religious life

A system or collection of ideas of right and wrong conduct

The clergy.

Virtuous conduct

Often spiritualities Something, such as property or revenue, that belongs to the church or to a cleric.

A rule or lesson in moral conduct

The quality or state of being spiritual.

(uncountable) Recognition of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results.

Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.

(countable) A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct.

Appreciation for religious values.

(countable) A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not.

(obsolete) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.

A lesson or pronouncement which contains advice about proper behavior.

(obsolete) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.

(countable) A morality play.

The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness.

Moral philosophy, the branch of philosophy which studies the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.

That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.

A particular theory concerning the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.

An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.

The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.

Property or income owned by a church

The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.

Concern with things of the spirit

The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; ethics.

The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.

A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII.

Intent; meaning; moral.

Concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct

Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong