Nicholas Sparks Quotes

I believe in spirituality, which is out there.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

I believe in divine forces and energies.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.

I believe in divine intervention.

I have friends who are scientists, strict materialists, who don't think science and religion are compatible, but I just think most of us - unless you're a strict atheist materialist, which there aren't many of - most of us believe in something outside the material world. And if you do believe that, I don't know how you're not obsessed with it.

The idea of spirituality is difficult to discuss.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

Miracle is the pet child of faith.

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.

I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.

I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

Honestly, I'm not a big person in terms of religion, but I really believe in nature. I feel like anytime you see anything beautiful in nature that's the closest I'm ever going to get to God or a sense of a higher power.