Stephen Covey Quotes

There is nothing specific we have to believe in order to have moral and spiritual lives.

The bottom line is we are trying to do what's right. We don't just say we believe in God - we have active relationships with God.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

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

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

I was baptised a Catholic and, although I'm not a churchgoer now, I do have a strong sense of the integrity of doing what you believe to be true.

Life is not just about profit and loss. One should follow one's conscience and listen to the voice of one's soul.

I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.

Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

Soul development should take precedence over all things.

We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.

The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.

I try to lead a life where I don't have to ask God for forgiveness.

I now have faith in those who say they represent a faith. Whereas before I was like, 'Do not give me a lecture on how to live my life when I know I'm a pretty decent human being. I might not go to church every day, but I know I do the right thing or try to. You're going to church and you're still sleeping around on your wife and spending everyone's money. How are you better than I am?' So I've finally met people that walk the walk and it's made me happy, really happy.

I would like to believe there is a God, but I think it is better to say I'm not sure there is a God and live your life with kindness and respect for people than to say I know there is a God and then do bad things.

Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different.

The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.