Quotes About Spirituality

The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.

All religions are true but none are literal.

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.

Well, obviously religion must come from inside.

The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.