Scott Derrickson Quotes

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Ever since I was young, I was always interested in exploring spirituality. I know that there are many paths to God, there is not just one path.

I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

The border between the natural and the supernatural, religion and philosophy, may not always be clear. But there are lines, and we should know and accept which side of it we are on.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.

People are drawn to the spiritual. It has a universal appeal.

I don't have anyone around me that's not spiritual.

I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realization.

You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.

I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.

The idea of spirituality is difficult to discuss.

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual'; I thought it was all crap.

I'm spiritual.

Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing the primacy of a physical Universe, made the existence of spirit and God an extraneous hypothesis that offered no explanatory principles needed by science.