Quotes About Spirituality

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.

I give Reiki, which is energy, but I don't tell too many people that.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.

There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.

I'm not a fanatic about my diet. I just believe the more aware you become of your spiritual being, the more you want to respect your physical being. It's a spiritual diet: You love yourself too much to eat crap!

I want to be a member of the team that helps in any way possible for the evolution of people's souls. Because too much encourages us to spend too much time with our lower nature, and we have a higher nature as well.

So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth.

I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.

Subconsciously, Islam took over me, so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.

Although I am a Christian, with what religion has become - a tool for so much of the bad stuff - I just say to people that I'm a person of faith.

I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years, and where religiosity is going in the future. I think that's a topic I've been chewing on for a few years; I would love to eventually work on and produce a book out of it.

I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.

Where there is Torah it sustains the world.

Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.

One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.

I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.