Douglas Hurd Quotes

I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.

I also work with the spirituality of people.

I'm a happy member of the church. I'm proud of it and defend it. It makes me bold and gives me confidence. I feel I know the answer to life - that it's all about. If you're not searching for the answer to life, you have more time to make art. It's a rock for me upon which I can tap dance.

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

Faith is something that's been created to help people get through life.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

I was experiencing all the success the entertainment industry has to offer, but I knew there had to be something more. It was sort of through that God prepared me to hear about His great plan.

The world is starved for spiritual food.

My driving force is spirituality.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls.

I'm a true believer that God puts us in situations to help us ultimately get to where we need to be.

I went to church. I found the light.

I think religion is a gateway for spiritual awakening.

My spiritual journey began at conception.

I'm just recommending you find other things to base your spirituality on, rather than where science is yet to tread.

From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain the thought of not trying to be in contact with Him.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.