Ted Koppel Quotes

I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it.

Believe in something larger than yourself.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

When I'm asked to define God, I'm almost wordless.

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.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.

There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man from the brute. It is our special prerogative that we can converse with that which we cannot see and believe in that the existence of which is reported to us by none of our senses.

If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.

I think that all the powerful religions are pretty much the same. People like to pretend they are very different, but they are not. They are really about believing in something bigger than yourself, something that's unseen, and about having some faith.

I am probably spiritual in the sense that I do believe there is more to life than what we see.

I don't believe in a particular god, but I believe in the unknown. I believe that there's something bigger than us.

I have the feeling that behind a certain dimension we cannot anymore see, understand, feel, smell, hear - nothing. What people are calling God I am not defining, but I am a 'possibilitiest.'

I think there are more religious overtones in music because these artists want to be connected to greatness. What is greater or higher than God himself?

The idea of spirituality is difficult to discuss.

Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!

Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.

The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?