Quotes About Spirituality

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

Some kneel and lie to God.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.

The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.

There are some great values in Christianity, but I think the values are located more deeply in our humanity than they are in our religion. There are certainly some survival values.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony.

The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.