Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Alan WattsI remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
BonoReligion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.
Mahatma GandhiThere are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma GandhiA church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. MenckenMen would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander PopeFaith is easy; I think people complicate it.
Joel OsteenIn great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Abraham LincolnI can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen KellerSo many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.
Joyce MeyerWe teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.
Russell M. NelsonWe’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.
Kendrick LamarSome people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.
Eckhart TolleIntense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother TeresaHatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
BuddhaIt was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.
Albert EinsteinYou hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
Bob DylanIn spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.
Charles SpurgeonI have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.
Pope FrancisIt’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.
Joyce MeyerIn each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
Hermann HesseWe hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.
George EliotI’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.
Kevin HartTo feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.
Charles SpurgeonTo those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
David HareI fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘
Russell M. NelsonMy religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert EinsteinIf one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God’s law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.
Russell M. NelsonThe spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
Robert Baden-PowellIt is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Blaise PascalMy religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
Mahatma GandhiI have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
Carl JungLet your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEvery people have gods to suit their circumstances.
Henry David ThoreauGod is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.
Mr. TOur body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.
Leonardo da VinciBut what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.
Barack ObamaWe are eternal beings – spirit children of heavenly parents.
Russell M. NelsonWhen Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.
Joyce MeyerI am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.
Dalai LamaThere’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.
Joel OsteenOne truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Albert SchweitzerGod’s first creature, which was light.
Francis BaconNow, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William ShakespeareWanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
Wayne DyerThere is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
Paulo CoelhoIn times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
Wayne DyerThere was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.
Lao TzuI think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.
RihannaI believe many people feel like God is mad at them.
Joyce MeyerI care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.
John MuirI can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.
Billy GrahamI try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Joel OsteenI’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
Stephen KingMotives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.
Joyce MeyerThe just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
Khalil GibranMy purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.
Wayne DyerYour love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
Eckhart TolleIt’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
Stephen KingWhile I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
Maya Angelou