Quotes About Connection

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?

Religion is life essential.

Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.

At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.

Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.

Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.

The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

I got my own way of praying.

Religion cruelly exploits our need to feel connected.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.

Religion helps you relate with the universe. Buddha was indifferent to the concept of god yet he gave us values.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity

The home of Religion is the heart.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.