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Quotes About Spirituality

When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.
~ Edmund Waller
God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
~ James Russell Lowell
while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.
~ Georgia Harkness
Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing his name.
~ Erwin McManus
I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.
~ George Harrison
The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.
~ Hugh Reginald Haweis
Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.
~ C. S. Lewis
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
~ Richard Rohr
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
~ Samuel Johnson
All neurotics seek the religious
~ Carl Jung
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
~ Erwin McManus
I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.
~ Orson Scott Card
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.
~ Augustus Hare
Religion, richest favor of the skies.
~ William Cowper
To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.
~ Donatella Versace
If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
~ William Jennings Bryan
The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man
~ Thomas Jefferson
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
~ Cyril Cusack
We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.
~ Meister Eckhart
Religion helps you relate with the universe. Buddha was indifferent to the concept of god yet he gave us values.
~ Asghar Ali Engineer
All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.
~ Neal Stephenson
Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.
~ Sylvia Earle