Irving Stone Quotes

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.

I was baptised a Catholic and, although I'm not a churchgoer now, I do have a strong sense of the integrity of doing what you believe to be true.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Religion is one of the most important forces in the world. Whether you are a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, or a Hindu, religion is a great force, and it can help one have command of one's own morality, one's own behavior, and one's own attitude.

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

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

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

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

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.

I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.

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

I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!

There is nothing specific we have to believe in order to have moral and spiritual lives.

Religion is the anchor of morality for most people.

To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

You can't believe how different your life can be until you've immersed yourself in faith or given your life up to Christ or decided you have a higher power you want to follow.

Spirituality is an anchor for me and guides me through life.

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.