I mean I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

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.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre and installed instead as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it but anybody can do it.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace let us mobilize the potentialities particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities which we usually reserve for war.

Religion brings to man an inner strength spiritual light and ineffable peace.

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature a soul why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment we cannot monitor or define it and yet it's there.