M. Scott Peck Quotes

From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

I've always believed in God, from the time I was very, very young. I always knew there was something with me, not necessarily knowing what to call it.

I grew up in church. My mom's a minister, and my grandmother was an ordained minister. I was always very mindful of the presence of a greater being I call God.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

I always had a relationship with God as early as 8 years old. I can remember having these conversations with God. I'd go in the bathroom and look in the mirror and talk to myself, but then I knew I was not the only one present.

God is near whether you sense His presence or not.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real.

When in God thou believest, near God thou wilt certainly be.

One's spirituality is about one's deepest personal understanding of and interactions with Life and God... whatever those may be.

I don't go to church so much, but I do believe in God and I understand the consequences of faith.

GOD is watching us, from a Distance.

My mother took us to services at the Episcopal church. Yet she always said that God was not just inside the four walls of a house of worship, but everywhere - in the rising sun over Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, a splash of water along the nearby Salt or Verde rivers, or clouds driving over the Estrella Mountains, south of downtown. I've always thought of God in those terms.

I believe in God, and that's a personal relationship that I have, but I'm not religious in any way.

I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.

And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.