Quotes about Spirituality
I'm not Buddhist, but I am drawn to it because it seems the most beneficial of organised religions and the most compassionate.
— Toni Collette
Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.
— Lawrence Wright
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
— Abraham Lincoln
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
— Johannes Tauler
Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.
— Anne Graham Lotz
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.
— Anne Hutchinson
I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.
— Marianne Williamson
The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.
— Marianne Williamson
Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.
— Anselm of Canterbury
We are a people who have learned repeatedly throughout our history that economic distress can help us to appreciate that there are other ways to be rich that are not financial or even material.
— Blase J. Cupich