Religious Individuality Quotes

As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

My faith is very personal. It's not something that I want to project on other people.

I feel religion is basically and essentially a communication between a man and his God and I think it is the most personal thing of all and I don't think it concerns too many people.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.

you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.

A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.