I connected to this idea of faith and spirituality and religion and Christianity being a very strong crux of who I am at the core and how a lot of what we think and believe is based around our spiritual beliefs.

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.

Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Religion was a part of our home life when I was growing up. I attended Catholic school. It was a good education - for the spiritual end, as well as for its discipline.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

Spirituality is not a formula; it is not a test. It is a relationship. Spirituality is not about competency; it is about intimacy. Spirituality is not about perfection; it is about connection. The way of the spiritual life begins where we are now in the mess of our lives.

I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature or helping your fellow man.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

I like people of faith, and I believe the more people who have spirituality, the better the world will be. It's about peace and tolerance.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all religions. But in terms of it being a concretized, organized part of my life, it's not.

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

My 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.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.

The true face of religion belongs to the re-enchantment of our injured civilization; faith is a way of filling all the spiritual spaces in our damaged world with the vision of a loving God, the God described in the Qur'an as al-Rahman al-Rahim.

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.

Religion is such a path with people.

What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.