Huston Smith Quotes About Spirituality

Quotes about: Spirituality

• In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

  Huston Smith

  Eras, Allies, Spirit

• Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature - one whose morphe (form) is theos - God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them.

  Huston Smith

  Heart, Eye, Faith Religion

• Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality.

  Huston Smith

  Healing, Government, Association

  "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November 1997.

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