Mary Karr Quotes

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.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

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

I believe that there is God in all of us.

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

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.

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.

God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.

I want to tell everybody that there is really a living God.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

God has been God in my life ever since I can remember.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

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 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 believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

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

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.

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.

I speak to God every day.

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?