Religion Quotes by Leonard Cohen

I've never thought of myself as a religious person.

— Leonard Cohen

I don't have any spiritual strategy.

— Leonard Cohen

“Your faith was strong, but you needed proof...”

— Leonard Cohen

Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

— Leonard Cohen

“I salute you Brave spirit Who has swallowed so much And tasted so little.”

— Leonard Cohen

Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every…

— Leonard Cohen

I kind of limp along like so many of us do in these realms. Occasionally I've felt the grace of another presence…

— Leonard Cohen

This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias…

— Leonard Cohen

At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have…

— Leonard Cohen

Hallelujah" "Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bathing on the roof. Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew…

— Leonard Cohen

The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said…

— Leonard Cohen

I think that all the spiritual training is just to be able to allow you to experience this from a slightly different…

— Leonard Cohen

I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were…

— Leonard Cohen

Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just…

— Leonard Cohen

Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the…

— Leonard Cohen

The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think…

— Leonard Cohen