Wallace Stevens Quotes

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

Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.

I'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach.

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.

I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

Immerse your soul in love.

My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

Religion is organized, and spirituality is what the individual feels in his relationship with truth and with God. And although spirituality may be expressed in a religion, many people are spiritual and never go to church. They aren't religious in the sense that they practice a certain type of discipline.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes. And then I think, I suppose I should go to church now. But after going to so many churches in my life and trying to go with the flow with so many denominations, Eastern and Western, I don't really feel I need to go to church at all.

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.

The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

You got your God and so do I.

The day we were born, we were all God's children.

True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs - in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God.