Sally Quinn Quotes

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.

Part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.

There's these things we do that take us into the zone - and we go in that place that I feel like is the place of love that you reach when you're in love or making love, or you're having a good conversation. I feel like that is God.

Sexuality is a sacrament.

There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.

But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

I never have actually had a girl who's made me laugh before.

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.

I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people.

To me, it's a religious experience to sit down at anyone's table. I feel so invited, like it's a sacred place.

I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.