Agnes Repplier Quotes

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

I felt the Lord at a young age. And it was one of those things where that seed was planted, you know, when I was a kid.

Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it.

Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.

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

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.

When I was born, God existed. But I never knew Him. I just never knew Him until Guru Maharaj Ji came into my life, till Guru Maharaj Ji came in my way, and showed me and revealed me that secret. And the day he did that, there it was, I knew God.

A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of human thought. In short, a religious belief is only a finger pointing to the moon. Some religious people never get beyond the study of the finger. Others are engaged in sucking it. Others yet use the finger to gouge their eyes out. These are the bigots whom religion has made blind. Rare indeed is the religionist who is sufficiently detached from the finger to see what it is indicating - these are those who, having gone beyond belief, are taken for blasphemers.

It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It is a matter of constitution and temperament, after all. He may have to be born again many times. I have known many a man who pretended to be a Christian, in whom it was ridiculous, for he had no genius for it. It is not every man who can be a free man, even.

I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.

Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that.

If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday school when I was a very young child.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.