Quotes About Spirituality

God wants to produce the character of Christ in our lives because he knows that the more we become like him, the more fulfilled we will be.

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.

Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression.

I will take no more physick, not even my opiates; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded.

I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam.

Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.

At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

Our religion should be incorporated within ourselves, a part of our being that cannot be laid off.

Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.

God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion.

I like to use religion as a catalyst for something that I believe.

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.