Quotes About Spirituality

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

Piety and holiness of life will propitiate the gods. [Lat., Deos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas.]

religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions.

The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings.

So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

I don't follow any organized religion, but I do believe in the idea of god as a verb - being love and light. And that we are part of everything as everything is part of us.

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Jesus was a crackpot.