Quotes about Spirituality
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
— Thomas Jefferson
One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.
— Georgia Harkness
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
— Hannah More
Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.
— Deepak Chopra
This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.
— John Adams
How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.
— Dorothy Day
Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Sure, Christianity is a world religion and I don't deny that. But having said that, this is, when it is all said and done, a relationship with God.
— Greg Laurie
It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.
— Dorothy Day
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.
— Deepak Chopra
Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.
— John Wesley