Quotes About Spirituality

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.

He is the God of nothing, if that is all you can see. He is the God of everything, he's inside you and me.

I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God.

Men come, men go, all things remain in God.

The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.

Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt

Religion is a cow. It gives milk, but it also kicks.

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

I do engineering, not religion.

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.