Bob Hope Quotes

Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical or rational basis, but because they are found in practice to give the faithful a sense of sacred transcendence.

I grew up as a Roman Catholic, and as a very young boy I felt the presence of divinity in my life through the experiences that I had in connection with the Catholic church.

See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.

You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.

Do not concern yourself with politics and the world; your job is to connect the hearts to God.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

I believe we have a physical body and a soul. It doesn't matter what religion you are, whether or not you believe in God. I think people believe that there is a soul and a body.

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

I know for me, and what the Bible teaches, I want to have a relationship with Jesus.

Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.

The greatest comfort in this life is having a close relationship with God.

Today is the most wonderful day of your life. This moment represents eternity. It is the moment when you return to love by deciding to live in communion with our Creator.

Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

I got to a point where kind of a oneness with everything and a great compassion. It teaches you compassion. It was a great, enlightening experience, a spiritual experience. Not particularly religious, but spiritual. It was great. I can still go there.

Crying out to the lord is the only eternal reality within this temporary world.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

Just like I believe God is everywhere, I believe that whether it's nature, whether it's sitting on a bike in spin class, that can be church, too, for me.

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am in may last, for to-day I have felt that there is a God; I have been devotional, and my mind has bben led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature.

There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.