Quotes About Spirituality

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.

I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.

Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

To a lot of people, angels are a matter of faith.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.

In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith

I'm definitely not trying to be, or am, a poster child for anything so structured. But I do have my own personal faith most definitely.

I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful.

It is the heart which experiences God and not the reason.

Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into.

Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right. By this we reach divinity.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Grab onto God's promises with one hand and His faithfulness with the other, ripping apart the natural to reveal the supernatural unseen beneath.

An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.

In the midst of your doubts don't forget how many of the important questions God does answer.

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith.