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Quotes About Spirituality

Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The home of Religion is the heart.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christianity is not a religion at all but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and through him a falling in love with our fellows.
~ John Bertram Phillips
In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
I don't approve of religion.
~ Ayn Rand
I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.
~ John Steinbeck
Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.
~ Francis Arinze
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
~ D.H. Lawrence
We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.
~ Bono
Scientology...is not a religion.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.
~ Vera Farmiga
The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.
~ H. L. Mencken
When love overflows and is expressed through every word and deed, we call it compassion. That is the goal of religion.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Shall it be a religion or shall it be Christ? Shall it be churchianity or shall it be Jesus Christ? Shall it be pride or shall it be humility in Jesus Christ?
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.
~ Anne Frank
Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.
~ William A. Dembski
I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.
~ Rene Dubos
Herbalism is a religion of nature, representing a balance of head and heart.
~ Michael Tierra
Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.
~ Stephen Batchelor