Feelings Quote by William James

Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in…

— William James

“Religion is that which a man does with his own solitude.”

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

— Alexis Carrel

...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of…

— Robert Neelly Bellah

“Solitude The creation of an open, empty space in our lives by purposefully abstaining from interaction with other human beings, so that, freed from…

— Richard J. Foster

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Religion means to know God and to love Him.”

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“Spiritual": religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.”

— Stefan Molyneux

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

— Aldous Huxley

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come…

— Thomas de Quincey

“Solitude means withdrawal from an artificial and fictional level of being which men, divided by original sin, have fabricated in order to keep peace…

— Thomas Merton