Spirituality Quotes

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

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."
-Carl Sagan

"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
-Alan Watts

"These findings are consistent with an emerging literature on the beneficial impact of faith and spirituality on health."
-Carissa Low

"We're not selling religion, we're not selling spirituality or anything like that, but that bang out there that all of us are reaching for it, no matter what it is."
-Ronnie Dunn

"Alternative forms of organized spirituality, as well as individualized faith experience and expression."
-George Barna

"A lot of our music is focused on searching for spirituality and on the man holding us down. 'My Own Prison' is a good name for the album because it was about us trying to break out of it."
-Mark Tremonti

"It's really about spirituality. Gardening is a metaphor."
-Tom Spencer

"I hope people will see the spirituality and the meaning of life, death, light and shadow. It's my art -- it's my life."
-Chiqui Ezcurra Muller

"I think we all can identify with the journey of the main character (John) as he takes steps for deeper spirituality."
-James Redfield

"When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light."
-Richard Meier

"Viewers who tune in this season will see a dynamic show with polish and professionalism, dedicated to revealing important truths about spirituality in contemporary Canadian society."
-John Scully

"There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man."
-Ana Castillo

"It is happening now. All religions attempt to institute spiritual sensibility. The real spirituality within religion has to do with connection."
-James Redfield

"The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result."
-Francis Schaeffer

"Some teachers emphasize the spirituality aspect of yoga; others may not bring it into play."
-John Schumacher

"One's religion or spirituality will affect how one deals with death."
-Lauren Weitzman

"I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more cynical about his beliefs, and I think I have to kind of drop what I believe in order to play him."
-Jason Ritter

"We're interested in how the arts can be a vehicle for communication across traditions. The arts can be an expression of spirituality, a resource for peacemaking and a forum for cultural change."
-Neill Walker

"I think what you have to look at is these are also consumers. And the feedback we get from people is that they are looking for things that nourish their faith -- that nourish their sense of spirituality. But they are also interested in buying things for the family and things for their personal use."
-Tony Uphoff

"In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body."
-Barbara De Angelis

"Reagan was a deeply spiritual guy. We did not get to see a lot of his spirituality, but it was there and it was the common thread, the fabric of who he was."
-Tim Watkins

"[Patterson] has restored a level of spirituality and biblical focus that the denomination had somewhat lost over the last several decades."
-Charles Blake

"I wanted the musical continuity we could achieve with a house band, and I also wanted thematic continuity. I didn't want songs about flooding; I didn't want songs about rain. I wanted to celebrate the musicality and the spirituality of the old neighborhood because I didn't know if there would even be an old neighborhood to return to. So I wanted the spirit of the neighborhood bar."
-Leo Sacks

"Spirituality and relationships between the spiritual traditions is where we started, but we don't want to limit it to that. We also have strands to do with education, arts, the diversity of Scotland and the celebration of Scotland internationally."
-Neill Walker

"To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people."
-Matthew Fox

"Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable."
-Starhawk

"These are the physical images of our tradition ... from out there where the wind and the dirt are. Outside is the spirituality, the religion, the ethereal. This is real, the concrete, physical foundation of what we are."
-Valentina Lapier