Religion Quote by Edward T. Welch Download Open image ““Modern spirituality has no hell, no doctrine, no substance. It is about feeling.”” — Edward T. Welch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Religion Spirituality
“Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.” — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
“psychological sense of spirituality is a feeling of union and transcendence, motivated by compassion, awe, or joy.” — Steven Stosny Copy Share Image
“Religion is for those individuals trying to avoid going to hell. Spirituality is for those of us who have been there.” — United Methodish Church bulletin Copy Share Image
“Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.” — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“Spirituality is not a journey in the physical sense. But self-realization, making peace between heart and mind.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Spirituality is the realization of the essence of one's own being, who we really are.” — Shiva Negi Copy Share Image
“Spirituality is the realization of the essence of one's own being, who you really are.” — Shiva Negi Copy Share Image
“For spirituality is not believing in any one thing in particular, spirituality is being true to our innate sense of truth and of what… — David Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The spiritual realm is not the ethereal beyond our lived experience. It is our experience, lived fully and well.” — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“You don’t really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way we behave… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us. 2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us. 3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. These three reasons have one thing in common: they see people as “bigger” (that is, more powerful and significant) than God, and, out of the… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share
“O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. (Psalm… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share
“James intentionally enlarges the scope of suffering when he writes, “trials of many kinds.” By doing this, he invites those who experience depression to learn that, whatever the cause, depression will test our faith and serve as a catalyst for growth rather than a reason for despair. Yes, depression is spiritual in the same way that all suffering brings us… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share
“The feeling of emptiness is usually a sign that we have put our trust in something that can’t sustain us. It reminds us that we were created to trust in our heavenly Father and nothing else. We were created to enjoy the many things God gives without making them the center of our lives. When we confuse the two, our… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share
“with this? Do you live as if this is true? Let’s keep going. The Bible isn’t just about heaven and only for the by-and-by.… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“Scripture is about suffering. It has given comfort to millions. It has spawned hundreds of wonderful books that highlight God’s gentle care and Scripture’s… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“Faith feels many different ways. It can be buoyant; it can be depressed and lifeless. Feelings don’t define faith. Instead, faith is simply turning… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“Notice how those who have medicated away their hardships with illegal drugs, alcohol, or sex can seem immature. They may look forty-five, but they… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“Depression ... involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“Somehow, turning to God and trusting him with the mysteries of suffering is the answer to the problem of suffering.” — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“Humility means that you acknowledge you don’t know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God.” — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you… — Penn Jillette Copy Share
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
