Quotes About Spirituality

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism to be refreshingly easygoing and forgiving.

Some of that church music, it's like this pure, raw, unfiltered emotion.

Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on.

If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.

I'm not very religious, but having reached middle age I rather enjoy the quiet and the contemplation of spending an hour in an old building.

The thing I always found about the gospel music was that it reached further into your being if you like, your mind. It takes hold of you - especially if you sing it and play it.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

I read the Bible every day.

You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

Every person who has a reading with me has an audiotape.

I homeschool, so the start of the day is reading Bible scripture, memorization, and prayer.

In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.

Looking back over the years, I realize the Bible isn't magic, but it is corrective; it isn't an answer book, it is a living book; it isn't a fix-it book, it is relationship book. When I confront God's word, I am confronted; when I read God's word, it reads me; when I seek God's presence, He seeks me.

I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.

When you get to the age of accountability you have to reaffirm your faith.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

You gotta bless others so you can get blessed. Keep it real.

I know God is real.

I'm actually a hippy in real life. I had three dreadlocks on the back of my head once. They were spawning.

I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.