Charles de Lint Quotes

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

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

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.

For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

Families need a spiritual bond with one another and with God. God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

I believe religion is important for every person.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

My religion lies in my composition.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

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

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

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

I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.