Marcia Wallace Quotes

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.

I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

I speak to God every day.

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

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

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that.

I'm nothing without God.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

To pray for any thing, which we can obtain by the due application of our natural powers, and neglect the means of procuring it, is impertinence and laziness in the abstract; and to pray for that which God in the course of his providence, has put out of our power to obtain, is only murmuring against God, and finding fault with his providence, or acting the inconsiderate part of a child.

Depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

I'm spiritual.

I like to think that faith has been a part of my life since I was a lot younger. It's definitely a part of my athletic career. I always wear a cross on my goggles during contests when I'm doing something gnarly. It's a reminder that I've got someone else helping me out.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

I believe in God, absolutely.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.