Sinead O'Connor Quotes

You know, for a long time I became almost atheist. I believed in nothing. And it was tough for me to believe in anything at all because I had believed so strongly. And I divorced myself of spirituality, I think.

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

I had NO interest in being a theologian, especially not a Christian, as I had been raised by progressive atheists. We bowed down every morning to the golden calf of the New York Times, Noam Chomsky, Hannah Arendt. I tried to get my parents to respect and nourish me, let alone delight in me, so even though I secretly loved and believed in the Divine Something - Goodness, Good Orderly Direction, Gift of Desperation, the Cosmic Muffin - I wasn't ready yet to commit myself to the study of a higher power.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

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.

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I think there's a difference between God and religion.

I don't believe in a heaven or a hell or an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable.

I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

I'm pretty spiritual; I believe a lot in the spirit of man.

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation.