Spirituality & Faith: Faith Quotes

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"Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there"

Bonnie Raitt, Musician

Sherwood Eddy, Author

"Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin"

William Robertson Smith, Scientist

"The undevout astronomer must be mad"

William Herschel, Scientist

"To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river"

Matthew Fox, Writer

"I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort"

Jewel Kilcher, Musician

"Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark"

Dan Millman, Author

"Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something"

Dennis Prager, Journalist

"I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28"

Billy Corgan, Musician

"During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever"

Albert Barnes, Theologian

"Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest"

David O. McKay, Clergyman

"Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people"

Thomas S. Monson, Clergyman

"I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid"

Sheryl Lee, Actor

"One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted"

Thomas Brackett Reed, Politician

"Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which, though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it"

William Laud, Clergyman

"When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth"

William H. Hunt, Soldier

"Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it"

Richard G. Scott, Clergyman

"Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols"

John Bach, Actor

"The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club, as the Governor would have us believe"

Wellington Mara, Businessman

"We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show"

Roma Downey, Actress

"When I walk into an Orthodox Church... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven!"

Thomas Howard, Writer

"I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons"

Marguerite Young, Author

"It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that can't be proven. I don't know, I don't think that's it"

Dwight Schultz, Actor

"I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do, because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them"

Gene Wilder, Actor

"I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting"

David Knopfler, Musician

"That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove"

Dan Brown, Author

"My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His Word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life"

Elizabeth Dole, Politician

"Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle"

Barry Sanders, Athlete

"Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it"

John Nelson Darby, Clergyman

"In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution"

Arthur Peacocke, Theologian

"He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always"

Fra Angelico, Artist

"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"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"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad, will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"He is dead in this world who has no belief in another"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth"

David Hare, Playwright

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