Quotes About Spirituality

My heart goes out to you, and I long to see you all coming constantly to God for a fresh supply of love.

But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

Religion is a light in the fog.

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.

I'm certainly not interested in religion for religion's sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to be for God's sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing.

Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.

Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.

Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

The purpose of religion is tocontrol yourself, not to criticiseothers.

One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.

Vision is the end of religion.