Quotes About Spirituality

For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

I feel connected to God when I'm out there performing.

I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

When I look up and see a star, I know my mom is there. She's with me all the time. It's a powerful connection.

I respect religion in general. I respect a lot, but I don't follow any religion. You know, I just follow my personal connection with God. For me, God is inside my heart and is inside everyone's heart.

I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.

I have always considered myself to be spiritual in a way that has less to do with religion and more with an awareness that you have, and the consciousness you have of being alive and the consciousness that you will be dead.

For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.

I do believe in God. I don't believe in God as a person, but I believe in God as a state of energy and consciousness that we all share.

Is there a higher energy? I would say yes, even if the energy is collective. Even if it's kind of Jungian, or the whole thing is collective consciousness, that may be God as far as I'm concerned. So is there an energy that's higher than mine? Yes.

As soon as I finish meditating, I get a beautiful feeling of expanded consciousness. When I'm in this headspace I can make so much progress in my writing.

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness.

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.

Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.

I feel very strongly we are spiritual beings in a physical body, and we should make our surroundings as beautiful and soulful as possible.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more benign, grateful attitude toward life than those of us who walk free. Many find a religious or spiritual stronghold.

I go to the Catholic Church. God is an important part of my life. If he was not, I don't think I could have survived.

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

I am not against it. But I am suspicious of all forms of New Age spirituality, and religion in general.

I felt like I was growing up with two different churches, in a sense. And that's always stayed with me - not just the religion of it - but the day-to-day understanding that these beliefs, that faith itself, is something that I need as something to sustain me.