Quotes About Spirituality

Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

You got your God and so do I.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable.

There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

We are religious by nature.

The religion is a formality. What matters is you show respect to God and your faith in God.

Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.