Quotes About Spirituality

If you do God's work, all your needs will be provided.

Organized religion may be anathema on the political Left, but the need for the things religion provides - moral fervor, meaning, a sense of community - are not.

What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.

I read Psalms 18 before every game.

The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

I call myself 'Christ-leaning,' but that's primarily psychological.

I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.

At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.

You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.

Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

I always like to play in beautiful cathedrals, when I can somehow get access to do a punk show there.

It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

Dad was a keen Roman Catholic, but I left the church when I was 17, not because I'd stopped believing - it was more doctrinal stuff, like that there was no biblical mention of purgatory. I went back when I was 28, just before I gave up drink.

I think the idea that life ends when we physically die is as painful as the idea in Cromwell's time that there's some awful purgatory, and you have to give money to the Catholic church to get your loved ones out. I certainly have experienced a lot of evidence that there's a consciousness that isn't physical.

When I listen to our first album now, I can hear the purity of the oneness of leaving all earthly things aside to come together and create something. It's quite marvelous.

I think purple is a great color.