Patti Smith Quotes

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

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.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

I talk to God every day. He's very real for me.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

I listen and talk to God daily.

My faith means everything to me. God and I talk constantly.

I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Now, whether my not asking for good things to happen to me is subconsciously intended to win me brownie points with God is something I can't answer. But I do feel the need to give thanks and also not to feel hypocritical by asking for things when I have doubts that God would answer me.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

Do not concern yourself with politics and the world; your job is to connect the hearts to God.

I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.