Quotes About Spirituality

I've always questioned death and birth and life. Where do we go? Are we here now? Or is this just one of the lives that we live?

I was religious probably until I was about eight but I always questioned stuff very early on.

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.

In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet music where you're sitting, you're meditating.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

Yes, I played inside the Taj Mahal, but the experience was also a quiet, inner experience.

Your personal time with God is huge, your quiet time, your study, prayer, but being around other Christian followers... and the church just feeds you. You come away feeling rejuvenated, you get a great message.

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

My father was a pastor, my mother was the quintessential pastor's wife.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

I'd gotten away from my Buddhism. And I quit meditating.

I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.

I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism.

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body.

Once upon a time, forests were repositories of magic for the human race.

The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.