George Gurdjieff Quotes

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

My religion lies in my composition.

I'm a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make the most sense to me.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!

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

RELIGION IS DOING; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. Whether he likes it or not he shows his attitude towards religion by his actions and he can show his attitude only by his actions. Therefore if his actions are opposed to those which are demanded by a given religion he cannot assert that he belongs to that religion.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

I believe religion is important for every person.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

I don't let my religious world get too complicated.

I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.

I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

I respect religion and will respect any religion.