Alanis Morissette Quotes

Love without conversation is impossible.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.

Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections.

Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality.

My faith comes before anything. It has also taught me to respect and admire people for what they are and who they are.

My faith tells me where to go and get started and what kind of sympathy to have for people once you get there.

Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

I'm spiritual.

I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.

I don't think love is a tricky issue at all. Love is best understood when we share: Share time, energy, food, resources, insights, information, whatever. It's usually thought of as something that exists between two people, but that's just because it's easier to see and feel in the space between them. Each person is sharing a lot with the other.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.