Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

A vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work; like watching the waves from the beach. But you will not get to Newfoundland by studying the Atlantic, and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in Flowers or music.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.

Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

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.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

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 say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

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.

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

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

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

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.

I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.

Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality.

I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.