Orson Bean Quotes

I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

I talk to God every day. He's very real for me.

I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.

I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.

Do not concern yourself with politics and the world; your job is to connect the hearts to God.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

There's a huge yearning in our culture for something more... it's being more in touch with God... and what we were created to be.

Your soul is between you and God.

Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.