Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

It's like when I look into the depths of things, dealing with my spirituality and the most high, it's serious. It's nothing to play with, nahmean. I try my best to be as humble as I can be.

I want to get to know God.

What I have is a personal relationship with God.

I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.

I can honestly say I am a Christian, but my spirituality has been developed on the road and is based on my experiences with God.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life.

I found my faith to be more about my belief, my spirituality, about nature.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

I've been working on my relationship with God, and when you work on your relationship with God, it gets to a point where you don't want to walk down the sinful road anymore.

I believe in God, but I wasn't living my life for God.