Quotes About Introspection

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Religion controls inner space; inner space controls outer space.

To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.

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.

Your mind is your religion.

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

I got my own way of praying.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

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

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.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.

Religion is something that you need to do in silence.

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

Some kneel and lie to God.

What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.

There are some great values in Christianity, but I think the values are located more deeply in our humanity than they are in our religion. There are certainly some survival values.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.