Ted Lange Quotes

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.

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

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

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

My hope is that 'Beyond the Heavens' will encourage people to explore faith, open their mind and go beyond what they think they know. That is what my mother encouraged me to do. I hope to encourage others to do the same through this story.

I respect religion in general. I respect a lot, but I don't follow any religion. You know, I just follow my personal connection with God. For me, God is inside my heart and is inside everyone's heart.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

Islam is about finding your own space.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

Over the years, my relationship with God has changed my life for the better - it's grown me up, given me a sense of purpose, and grounded me in my identity.

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain the thought of not trying to be in contact with Him.

My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

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

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don't believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it's from another century, it's not for today.

When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.

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.