Salman Rushdie Quotes

I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

'My Church' - that was really the tipping point of me going from songwriter to artist.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I try to stay centered in my faith and my family and the close people around me.

There's good things about going to church.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').

I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

I think my faith is important. Being young as well, sometimes it's difficult, but I've got a good family behind me as well.

I may be a good Catholic, a bad Catholic or a so-so Catholic, but that's who I am.

Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.

I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.