Quotes about Religion

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.

Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.

I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

In temples you find religion, but in hearts you find God.

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.