Tariq Ali Quotes

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

Faith is pretty much the essence of mine and Grace's being.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

I believe religion is important for every person.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

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

Faith helps many people make sense of the world around them. Faith gives them a spiritual connection to something larger.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.

It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

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.

There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to... We're all gods.

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

Religion has stayed with me even though I rebelled.

Not only should the Indonesian people believe in God, but every Indonesian should believe in his own God.