Quotes About Spirituality

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!

What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.

There people fail to realise that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. - Pi Patel in Life of Pi

A germ of religious exaltation, no bigger than a mustard seed.

These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil within that has been let out.

But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.

I went to temple at crowded times when Brahmins were too distracted to come between me and God.

He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas.

And so, when she first heard of Hare Krishnas, she didn't hear right. She heard "Hairless Christians", and that is what they were to her for many years. When I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims.

If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness

And so, when she first heard of Hare Krishnas, she didn't hear right. She heard Hairless Christians, and that is what they were to her for many years. when I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims

The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love.

What of God's silence? I think it over. I add: An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose.

Religion?" Mr. Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love--but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.

Bapu Ghandi said, All religions are true. I just want to love God, I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face.

But religion is more than rite and ritual. There is what the rite and ritual stand for.

many people seem to lose God along life's way.

I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering, I should turn to God.

He smiled. "You already are, Piscine—in your heart. Whoever meets Christ in good faith is a Christian. Here in Munnar you met Christ.