Quotes About Introspection

As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.

The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.

You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

My religion is no way of knowing me.

Your garden will reveal yourself.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

God save us from religion.

My own mind is my own church.

We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.

Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.

I can not imagine a God ... made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him 'great'.

Well, obviously religion must come from inside.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.