Quotes about Spirituality
What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.
— Frank Herbert
Die before you die, there is no chance after.
— CS Lewis
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
— John Adams
Adversity reminds men of religion.
— Livy
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
— A Powell Davies
I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
— Victor Hugo
There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.
— Paulo Coelho
The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.
— Frederick Douglass
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
— James Freeman Clarke
As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.
— Alexander Hamilton
It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi