Erich Fromm Quotes

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

Religion doesn't start with a set of laws or rules and it doesn't start with a set of ideas. It starts with an encounter, with the living God and in our case, Christ risen from the dead. In that encounter you meet someone you can trust. That's faith: trust in truth.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

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

The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.

You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.

None of us exist in a world that is the same world that any of the rest of us live in. The world that's important is the world behind each of our eyes, which is something that none of the rest of us can access.

If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me.

I haven’t met God and I haven’t been to heaven, so I’m skeptical.

I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.

I became a Christian when I was a little six-year-old boy.

All our experiences have led us to believe certain things about ourselves. Whether these beliefs are true or not really doesn't matter because if we accept them as true, then they are true for us.

My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.

Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

It is no longer a matter of expressing reality, but of expressing what one feels about reality.