Quotes About Spirituality

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse.

I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious.

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

Religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

Religion is about creation, and for that reason religion should be about the earth.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

Much of the Christian religion has largely become "holding on" instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

Shamanism is not a religion. It's a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shaman's path can become a way of life.

A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.

God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.