Quotes About Spirituality

I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.

My dad's Jewish and my mum is Christian, so I grew up with no religion. Just whatever religion I wanted.

Communicating with people was found to be like suffering judgment. In fact, it was almost impossible for me to dwell upon earthly matters, and equally impossible for me to bring the mind down to mundane thoughts and general conversations.

I'm more inclined towards old churches and dusty museums.

Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other.

I have a great affection for Indian culture and music.

I hope that I am out of the music business when I meet God.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

I remember really getting into 'The Wiz' and an old musical called 'Purlie,' which Melba Moore sang. I liked those roof-raising shows because I connected deeply with the gospel aspects of those musicals.

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

I grew up around a lot of church musicians.

I think the way I am, the way I'm chilled out, has a lot to do with being Muslim and having faith.

My mom's actually a Buddhist. My dad's a Christian and he was a Muslim, but he converted to Christianity.

I converted Dec. 31, 1999. It was a Friday. That was my second time going to the mosque. The woman who is my wife now... was basically raised Muslim - and she was at that point where she was deciding or trying to come to terms with her own relationship with Islam and how to embrace that for herself.

I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

My grandmother was a Muslim. My mother is Christian. And I don't know what I am, but I believe in God.

I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.

The opportunity here in the U.S. is so unique because we are so diverse, with so many different cultures living together. Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists, all with their own connections to the spiritual aspects of food and with lessons that we can learn from each other.

I grew up in a church. My mom is a minister so she would make us go to every possible church she could muster.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

If you're going through a hard time or if you've experienced a miscarriage, so many women have come up to me and said they went through the same thing, and they never wanted to talk about it, so I hope my journey can help you and that you can find God in my life.

My journey has been good, and by God's grace, I have not changed.