Quotes About Reflection

Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

When it gets a little hard to care, just think about Him hanging there.

I got my own way of praying.

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

God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.

Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.

First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation.

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.

Religion is something that you need to do in silence.

Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

I like to use religion as a catalyst for something that I believe.