Quotes about Spirituality
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
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