Anne Graham Lotz Quotes

I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.

My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

Religion is a sham when it claims to reveal the secret of life and death, to possess the eternal supreme truth, when it says that he who does not believe shall be damned.

Don't let a temporal way to connect be a poor substitute for an eternal way. Without first being connected vertically to God, all the social networking contacts in the world won't be enough.

To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.

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.

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

Every generation is equidistant from God.

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

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.