Elaine Pagels Quotes

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.

First and foremost, praying about things and having the good Lord as a part of my life is a huge grounding thing for me.

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

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

A spiritual life is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How do you live? What's true? How do you respond? It's not about living by beliefs; it's about wanting to know.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.

You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.

I pray every day and think everybody should.

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

I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe.

I believe in God. I am not ritualistic but I do pray every day.

I believe in my prayers.

I don't have any answers, but in my personal opinion, I'm a person that has faith and I believe that a lot of people have neglected God.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

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.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

I also work with the spirituality of people.

I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.