Sigrid Undset Quotes

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

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

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

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

My driving force is spirituality.

I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.

For me, a spiritual and existential crisis is the same thing in that your foundation gets rocked.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

Religion has stayed with me even though I rebelled.

When I first started writing music, it was to express that. I was trying to find God and trying to find meaning in my life. That's what my music was about. It wasn't to entertain.

In terms of my personal spirituality and everything else, it's ever-evolving. I have a desire to want more out of the universe. But the older I get, the further I get from any specifics about that.

If I'm looking at life without a spiritual perspective, it's a lot more painful, a lot more confusing, and there's so much that I don't understand.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.