Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

I am religious in my thinking.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

I definitely think religion is responsible for a lot of the evils of the world. I mean that's not really in debate. But at the same time, I think whatever gets you through the day, whatever helps you make sense of life I'm not gonna begrudge my grandmother with her rosary beads. It works for them. And at the end of the day, I don't claim to know the answer to anything.

Well, obviously religion must come from inside.

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

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

I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.

I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

Our religion should be incorporated within ourselves, a part of our being that cannot be laid off.

Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise and tension of modern life, at least for a little while, in order to relax their minds and wills and seek a blessed healing sense of inner unity, reconciliation, integration?

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

I don't have a religion because I don't like that word religion.

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open yourself to a poem with a quiet, receptive mind, in the same way you might listen to a difficult piece of music... If you seize upon a poem and try to extort its meaning before you are ready, it remains opaque. If you bring your own personal agenda to bear upon it, the poem will close upon itself like a clam, because you have denied its unique and separate identity, its inviolate holiness.

I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul

I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest.

Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness.... Thanks be to God that this is so! In fact, this need tells us that we are not made for work alone, but also to think, to reflect or even simply to follow with our minds and our hearts a tale, a story in which to immerse ourselves, in a certain sense to lose ourselves to find ourselves subsequently enriched.