Krista Tippett Quotes

There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.

The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all religions. But in terms of it being a concretized, organized part of my life, it's not.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.

Ever since I was young, I was always interested in exploring spirituality. I know that there are many paths to God, there is not just one path.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

What's different about the Gospel of Thomas is that, instead of focusing entirely on who Jesus is and the wonderful works of Jesus, it focuses on how you and I can find the kingdom of God, or life in the presence of God.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

My joy in my life comes from my strength in my life and in my experience with God. That cannot be separated from football. It is all the same to me. It is one. I am one with it.

I'm not religious. I'm spiritual. Religious seems too much like a club.

We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what or who or how God is. You know, I think that religion kind of messes people up in that regard. That's just my own personal philosophy.

Spirituality is complicated. I do not belong to any particular religious group, but I have profound respect for people who devote their lives to faith.

The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

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.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.