Quotes About Spirituality

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

I got my own way of praying.

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.

Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.

Religion cruelly exploits our need to feel connected.

...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.

A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

In religion, the ego manifests as the devil. And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.