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"I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion."

"Don't neglect the importance of prayer in your Christian life."

"There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion."

"The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if the knowledge of God were an alternative to the knowledge of woman, or to any other form of experience."

"It is possible to conceive, Anselm said, of a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Even an atheist can conceive of such a superlative being, though he would deny its existence in the real world. But, goes the argument, a being that doesn't exist in the real world is, by that very fact, less than perfect. Therefore we have a contradiction and, hey presto, God exists!"

"Unity despite diversity is exactly what defines Christianity as distinct from and antithetical to all other religious belief systems."

"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect."
Explore more quotes by Ben Kingsley

"There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word."

"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."

"As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving."

"I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable."

"The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that."

"Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work."

"Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries."

"I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language."
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