Quotes About Spirituality

You don't see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

I was able to find myself spiritually by realizing that my happiness started with me.

I started meditating.

My whole entry into astronomy started from a spiritual place.

The occult stuff, I grew up having a fascination about world religion and that fascination grew into other religions and other things and I kind of dabbled my way into the occult and started reading about the occult.

I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.

Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.

My day starts with the chanting of Gayatri Mantra and Om Namah Shivay. I chant them every time I bowl.

The song that starts with 'Neene Rama, neene Shama, neene Allah, neene Yesu,' is very profound. It exhorts people to stop looking for god everywhere and to instead look within themselves.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

The highest state is laughter.

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

I always liked church. I was one of those kids who was desperate for the statue of Mary to talk to me, which is a very egotistical approach to your faith. I just wanted somebody to pay attention to me.

As a child that is born into the world requires nourishment, so also the Christ that is born within is a babe and requires to be nourished to the full stature of manhood.

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.

To me, India's always represented 'everything'; it represents 'all.' Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you'll never feel like you've missed out on life.

I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

Religion has stayed with me even though I rebelled.

It stayed with me - the Bible has stayed with me. I've grown out of it because, obviously, you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

We all fled from religion. Living la vida loca, whatever. The '60s, you know. But it always stayed in my heart. As I got older, I started coming back to religion.