Quotes About Spirituality

If the 'I am the doer' idea goes, then only I Am remains and that 'I Am' has no religion.

God save us from religion.

My own mind is my own church.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

What's the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don't change what's on the inside,were it really counts ?

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

Adversity reminds men of religion.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.

Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

...balance the budget ? Tax religion.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.

We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.

Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.