Religions & Spirituality Quotes (2350 Quotes)

Spirituality is like a bird If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all.

Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing.... If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.

The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.

In the last 40 years, we can consider Mother Olga as the greatest proponent of the religion of the Orixas in all Brazil .

It was a strong combination of spiritual depth and lack of pretense or rawness to his personality.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

We cannot fulfill our engagements with the Almighty without we have that Spirit with us. We should so live as to acknowledge the Good Spirit continually. We cannot do this unless we let the Spirit of God rule in temporalities as well as in spiritual matter.

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

Sometimes it's so vulgar that it's not particularly good for religion. But if religion is in everything, it has to be in the vulgar stuff, too.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.

Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.

What we want is some sort of communism not based on wages, nor profits, nor any sort of buying and selling but on a religion of life.

There are many other people who believe the same way. It's a matter of freedom of religion, equality, freedom of political opinion.

Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.

Contemporary societies, while gifted with many means, do not always manage to facilitate the mission of parents, both on the level of spiritual and moral motivation and on that of the practical conditions of life.

Winning the grant is amazing. A grant of this magnitude will enable me to spend significant time exploring a topic which requires a lot of research and the development of many relationships. At a time when religion is at the forefront of many of this country's domestic and foreign policies, it seems logical to take a step back and examine it more thoroughly.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

From Lebanon to Israel, to Sri Lanka, to Kashmir, to Chechnya -- every suicide terrorist campaign since 1980 had as its main goal to establish or maintain self-determination for territory that the terrorists prize. Religion is rarely the root cause although religion is often used as a tool by terrorist organizations to serve the broader strategic objective.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

I think there is a kind of agreement among all of us that Islam must be the religion of the state, that the Islamic identity of Iraqi people must be respected, and that Islam will be one source of the laws in the country.

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.

The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social justice, human dignity, religious freedom and mutual respect among the world's religions. The secretary-general looks forward to the contributions His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI will make in strengthening those values.

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

This new form of activity medicine I could not represent to myself as talking about the religion of love, but only as an actual putting it into practice.

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.

Where mystery begins religion ends.

One seems to believe almost all that they believe and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace.

I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

It is not true that religion reached its acme nineteen hundred years ago, and that we are for ever to refer back to what was written and said in those days. No, sir religion is a vital living thing, still growing and working, capable of endless extension and development, like all other fields of thought. There were many eternal truths spoken of old and handed down to us in a book, some parts of which may indeed be called holy. But there are others yet to be revealed and if we are to reject them because they are not in those pages, we should act as wisely as the scientist who would take no notice of Kirschoff's spectral analysis because there is no mention of it in Albertus Magnus.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

I play churches and I play bars and I don't change my show. There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life. That puts me in a folk category instead of pop, but I don't censor myself. My music is very inclusive and progressive.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally to establish our own righteousness instead of the Lord's (DC 116). After all, Lucifer was willing to work very hard, but conditionally in his own way and for his own purposes. (Moses 41).

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

There's a spiritual connection to good health it's not just physical.

In my travels I have found that those who keep Heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. If the glories of Heaven were more real to us, if we lived less for material things and more for things eternal and spiritual, we would be less easily disturbed by this present life.

I think it's an area parents cannot afford to be in denial about. The profile of a sexual predator doesn't meet any criteria as far as race, religion or socioeconomic background, and we're negligent if we don't screen volunteers or anybody who is involved

I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it outwith charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and notin the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.