Mary Karr Quotes

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

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

I believe in God. I am not ritualistic but I do pray every day.

For me, there is no specific place which I need to go to pray since I believe in one god.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

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

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality.

From a young age, I saw and placed importance on spirituality within religion.

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

I am not a person of faith. I'm a Catholic. I was brought up Catholic, but I'm not a church-going sort of girl. I'm very spiritual. I pray every night. I believe in Heaven and Hell, but I'm not a person that goes to church, like, every Sunday.

I believe in my prayers.

I pray every morning and night before bed.

I believe we have a physical body and a soul. It doesn't matter what religion you are, whether or not you believe in God. I think people believe that there is a soul and a body.

I don't have any answers, but in my personal opinion, I'm a person that has faith and I believe that a lot of people have neglected God.

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.

For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.