I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.
A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.
When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it; it was a very spiritual time for me.
Spirituality in Washington can be more of a - I don't want to say it - but, a networking opportunity. Religion is often used opportunistically in the political conversation.
There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.
Just like you need to strengthen your core physically with exercise, you also need to strength your core spiritually.
It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.
You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.
The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.
Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle.
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's.
I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.
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