Apprehension Quote by Quentin S. Crisp

I have not the slightest confidence in 'spiritual manifestations.'

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“The spiritual atrophying of contemporary culture may be due in large measure to its loss of sensitivity to processes in the collective unconscious.”

— Terrence McKenna

You have to accept that traditions exist, that people don't change their minds very quickly, that people are scared.

— Theodore Zeldin

I realize that I've had a very idyllic vision of what spirituality looks like. Honestly, most of Western culture has an idyllic and simplified…

— Alexander Weinstein

“Anthropological data clearly showed that cultures practicing religions historically had outlived nonreligious cultures. Fear of being judged by an omniscient deity always helps inspire…

— Dan Brown

“An elevated view of one’s self leads to the perception of other cultures through the lens of American Christian exceptionalism. Other cultures are viewed…

— Soong-Chan Rah

I think we live in a culture that is actually hedging all of it towards comfort and immediacy, things that scare me. All the…

— Guillermo del Toro

We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did…

— Dallas Willard

People ask a lot about how I can be a believer in a culture that perhaps is counter cultural to what you believe in.…

— Kelly Clark

Since then, my approach to all things spiritual is rather cynical you could say. When somebody present something to me as spiritual, my first…

— Brad Warner

Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah