Quotes About Religious journey

As I delved deeper into these Christian mystics, I was beginning to question in my own mind if I needed to make a path change from Zen Buddhism to Christianity. It had been many years since I'd been to my first Catholic mass, and I decided to go back a second time.

All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's Divine Presence.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.

The various forms of spirituality and religion are not the path to truth, but the antidote to it.

Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

We, as mothers, will have children of all ages, at all stages of their religious journey. Some have been saved, some are struggling in sin, some are confused, and some are under the chastening hand of God. We need to be there, praying, smiling, encouraging and seeing them through these rough years.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

Of course we have been to the monster Church of St. Peter

now I've deconverted. And I have to say, the deconversion process was not easy or pleasant. As I pointed out in an earlier chapter, I left the faith kicking and screaming.

Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and sometimes I need to be a Catholic and need to purge my sins and confess. It just depends on where I am.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Seeker, who says religion is the way to God?

I began to meet young men and women who talked about having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and while I cherish my Catholic upbringing and the foundation that it poured in my faith, that had not been a part of my experience.

I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn't until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I've kinda been on my own spiritual path since then.

Religion stands on tiptoe in our land,Ready to pass to the American strand.

I thought everybody would embrace and understand my reasons for becoming Muslim.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

When I first started, everything happened at once. I became religious, my musical career took off, I got married, I had kids, and all that happened within the course of a year. I had an excitement about this newly found faith, and so I was writing about that in a very evident kind of way.