Sydney Carter Quotes

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Faith accepts no commands. It accepts only what comes to it by way of reasoned conviction.

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.

I wish I could help everyone to understand this one simple fact: we believe in God because of things we know with our heart and mind, not because of things we do not know. Our spiritual experiences are sometimes too sacred to explain in worldly terms, but that doesn't mean they are not real.

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Honestly, I'm not a big person in terms of religion, but I really believe in nature. I feel like anytime you see anything beautiful in nature that's the closest I'm ever going to get to God or a sense of a higher power.

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!

Conscience is God present in man.

Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.