Quotes About Reflection

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

The external is in no way the essence of religion, but the external often proclaims the internal.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren't going to back on.

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

I don't think Kant's approach to religion is any longer viable in its original form. But that does not mean it is simply wrong or that we cannot learn from it.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

A garden is a private world or it is nothing.

When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.")

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.

In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.

As for a future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague possibilities.

When you read a holy book, you emphasize that God exists.When you see people, you sympathize their existence.