Quotes About Spirituality

The path I follow is still an Orthodox path. You have to follow a path; otherwise, it becomes a little bit new-age, a bit of this, a bit of that.

I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.

I happen to be a Christian. I was brought up and drenched in that. I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

When I'm not as humble as I ought to be, I tend to get knocked down. What I do is to glorify God.

One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of God or religion doesn't matter, it's not an important decision. I think it's vitally important; it's what all our lives are based on.

We should put God ahead of everyone else in our lives.

We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It is not difficult for us to understand the love of God. When the love of our Lord is in a man's heart, this man acts totally different.

God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.

I am a God-fearing person. Ours is a religious family and I respect all religious gurus.

We are disciples of Krishna, and we look at ourselves like Arjun in the battlefield.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

I wouldn't be out here without God, without Jesus in my life.

The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.

Every religion or every philosophy is an outcome of the human search for liberation.

At the end of the day, I do think there's a higher power, and the way I feel about things and choose to do things has an effect on that outcome.

Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all human relationships, whether those within the covenanted community itself or those between the covenanted community and the outside world.