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Quotes About Reflection

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.
~ Xenophanes
We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one
~ Tom Hiddleston
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
~ Robert F. Kennedy
After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.
~ Luther Standing Bear
If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
~ Max von Sydow
Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse.
~ Amy Carmichael
I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.
~ Bruce Chatwin
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.
~ Christian Wiman
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
~ Anita Diament
Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.
~ Sam Shoemaker
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.
~ Nouman Ali Khan
The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.
~ George Bernard Shaw
God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.
~ Henri Rousseau
Men create the gods after their own images.
~ Aristotle
You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts.
~ Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.
~ Andy Griffith
I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.
~ Reggie McNeal
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
~ Martin Luther
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.
~ Soren Kierkegaard