Quotes About Spirituality

There's a lot of kids who look up to me, and that's humbling. Because being human, I don't want to fail them. But being human, I will. That's why it's so important to have your faith put in something that won't fail you. And that means the Son of God's kingdom.

In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.

The song 'Hymnostic' is kind of a gospel song, and that song is really fun to sing with as many people as possible. And anyone can sing it, you know?

Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play.

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

Good songwriters write about what consumes their heart, and ours is about our relationship with God.

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.

When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

It is very important to have connection with your soul and open your heart to people.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

When God comes into your life, He lights a candle in your soul.

Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.