Quotes about Spirituality
We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.
— CS Lewis
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.
— RC Sproul
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
— Martin Luther
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.
— JC Ryle
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.
— Mark Twain
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