Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.

I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

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

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

Much prayer, but no piety.

Religion is such a path with people.

Believe it or not, I say my prayers in the morning and in the evening.

In real life I don't chant. Nor do I believe in idol worship.

I'm not a religious person. I have a one-on-one relationship with God, but I don't go to church like I should.

One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing.

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

To be a religions man and to pray are really one and the same thing. To join in the thought of God with every thought of any importance that occurs to us ; in all our admiration of external nature, to regard it as the work of His wisdom ; to take counsel with God about all our plans, that we may be able to carry them out in His name ; and even in our most mirthful hours to remember His all-seeing eye ; this is the prayer without ceasing to which we are called, and which is really the essence of true religion.