Patti Smith Quotes

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful." He further added: "No man can read the gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life...Theseus and other heroes of his type lack the authentic vitality of Jesus.

There is no significance of God in my life, God is my life. I would not be, without God. I am supposed to be dead.

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

Ours is not a joy born of having many possessions, but of having encountered a person: Jesus in our midst.

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

If there is God, I thought...Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh..." "Tatiasha...isn't it nice to know there is a God?

If you're looking for Jesus Then get on your knees

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

My faith in God is everything at this point. Also, my family and friends that I've had around me pretty much my whole life and my boyfriend, we've been together for eight years. I try to keep people around me who've been around me, who've seen me struggle. They know how dedicated I am and how hard I've worked. They know me - not the Jennifer from American Idol and Dreamgirls, but the real Jennifer.

You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.

If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

If you turn to God once, He will turn to you a million times.

The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.

If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.

Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time.

Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.

Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.

We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us into the realms of mystery... we must be pure and simple like children, capable of admiring, being astonished, of marveling, and being enchanted by the divine gestures of love and closeness we witness.

Prayer is first and foremost an act of love

God is not outside this earthly case of ours.

God comes to you disguised as your life.

The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.