Quotes About Spirituality

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.

I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

None of us, I think, in the mid-'70s … would have thought we'd be devoting so much mental space now to confront religion. We thought that matter had long been closed. — Ian McEwan

And he began to see his world as an amusing place where ridiculous things happened and where a man or woman could obey all the rules and avoid all the perils but still fall into some absurd situation at which their neighbors and the spirits themselves had to laugh and not furtively either but with great guffaws. The world was tragic, and fine men and strong animals died arbitrarily, but it was also so preposterous that sometimes the crests of mountains seemed to bend together in laughter.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

If the answer is simple, God is speaking.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this religious feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

Evil is the absence of God.

The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.

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