Quotes About Spirituality

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. So real religion is always without rules; only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

When it comes to responding to Jesus, I find it's important to distinguish between reverence, religion, and relationship.

True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or in the apostle's phrase, it is Christ formed in us.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

I believe in God... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.