Quotes About Personal

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.

Well, obviously religion must come from inside.

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.

Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we grew up with. Both on a personal level and a collective level.

I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.

...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.

The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.

No one wants their personal emails made public, and I think most people understand that and respect that privacy.