Lucy Larcom Quotes

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

Man makes holy what he believes.

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.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

Earth's crammed with Heaven.

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.