Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

I am a spiritualist, a proud wearer of the spiritualist badge.

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

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Spirituality is complicated. I do not belong to any particular religious group, but I have profound respect for people who devote their lives to faith.

Anyone can be a Son Of God if they wish to be and have the faith. I need to articulate this so everyone understands.

I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.

Once man's connection to the divine is denied, you can reason yourself from here to anywhere.

Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.

What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

Faith is generated in the atmosphere of experiencing truth.

Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.

There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)

No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.

I don't go to church so much, but I do believe in God and I understand the consequences of faith.

Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.

It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form. That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.

We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can’t even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176]

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.

Religion is a smile on a dog.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.