Jodi Picoult Quotes

I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

You got your God and so do I.

I'm not a religious person. I have a one-on-one relationship with God, but I don't go to church like I should.

Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.

Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.

Religion is organized, and spirituality is what the individual feels in his relationship with truth and with God. And although spirituality may be expressed in a religion, many people are spiritual and never go to church. They aren't religious in the sense that they practice a certain type of discipline.

Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

Just like I believe God is everywhere, I believe that whether it's nature, whether it's sitting on a bike in spin class, that can be church, too, for me.

I believe in God, and that's a personal relationship that I have, but I'm not religious in any way.

I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.

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

It's almost inevitable that we become religious people. The question is, what kind of religion is it?

I'm not starting my own religion, I'm not preaching, and I'm not starting a church of any kind, but I love being able to accumulate so many experiences over the years and use that as ammunition for what I truly believe in.

God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.

And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

I'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach.

I really believe that God and religion is two different things.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.

Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.

I believe in God. Nobody made me believe; I don't think you can or should try to force someone to believe something. And even though my parents taught me stuff about God and read Bible stories to me from as early as I can remember... it was my choice to become a believer in Him. The way I see it, putting our faith in God is something that each person has to come to on his or her own. It's your own personal relationship with Him; a bond that's as unique as a fingerprint.

Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes. And then I think, I suppose I should go to church now. But after going to so many churches in my life and trying to go with the flow with so many denominations, Eastern and Western, I don't really feel I need to go to church at all.

I'm not religious, but I am spiritual. I have my own relationship with a being that I consider to be everywhere. All and everything. I don't need a church or a synagogue or a mosque. I don't need to kneel down, I don't need to stand up, I don't need to be hanging from a thread.

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace.

I Am More Spiritual Than Religious; Besides I Am Not A Fanatic

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.