Quotes About Spirituality

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

The Catholic religion doesn't have conspicuous symbols.

Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them.

I'm a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make the most sense to me.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

I always like to keep one hand in the tepee and the other hand in the synagogue. Wouldn't it be great if there was a combination of the two? You could go to synagogue, and it would be really hot in there.

I have a wonderful synagogue, fantastic rabbi and cantor and membership, and they just enrich my life every day, and I learned so much from helping to grow our synagogue, grow our membership, and meet the needs of such a diverse population.

I know crowds of people who go to church and the synagogue who aren't religious.

Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.

I am going to be contradictory to myself many times for the simple reason that I am trying to bring all the religions to a higher synthesis. Different approaches have to be joined together. I am creating an orchestra.

My dad was a Seventh-Day Adventist pastor, and from an early age I was put off by being force-fed a belief system.

My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

vegetable eating traditionally has been considered far better for the good of the soul.

Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed, will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

In everyone's story of faith, there are people who have shown up and become catalysts for their spiritual growth. Think about it. If you are reading this right now, chances are you believe what you believe and you do what you do because of the way someone influenced your faith.

Leaders in touch with heaven can move earth

People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

I stay in tune with my family and God.

In other words, our spiritual journey occurs not in spite of the ambiguous and problematic experience of our actual life but because of it.

Let us perform all our actions with the thought that God dwells in us. We shall thus be His temples, and He Himself will be our God, dwelling in us (cf. Eph. 15: 3).

the nearer we approach to God, the more we are drawn by Him.