Padma Lakshmi Quotes

I respect religious rules. I am a true God-fearing Hindu.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

Man makes holy what he believes.

My family is very religious.

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

I know crowds of people who go to church and the synagogue who aren't religious.

Much prayer, but no piety.

Religion is such a path with people.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

I was raised in the church.

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.

I am a deeply spiritual and religious person both privately and publicly.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

I do love the idea of ritual.