Ramy Youssef Quotes

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

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you.

Why do people stick with their God? That’s what they have.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

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

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

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

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.

I don't know if I'm the most religious guy, but I think I'm a spiritual man, and these are the things I think about a lot. In terms of the film, I think 'The Grey' is very much a non-denominational kind of film. I don't think it's something that relies on a particular religious bent to tell the story.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

I'm pretty spiritual; I believe a lot in the spirit of man.

I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn't wait to get away from that. But that doesn't mean I'm not a spiritual person.

I believe in a higher force that is within me.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.