Such an image of one's god becomes a final obstruction, one's ultimate barrier. You hold on to your own ideology, your own little manner of thinking, and when a larger experience of God approaches, an experience greater than you are prepared to receive, you take flight from it by clinging to the image in your mind. This is known as preserving your faith.

Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.

Religion often gets in the way of God.

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.

Belief in God is the single greatest barrier to God in the Universe. It is almost a total barrier to the experience of God. When you think you have experienced God, you haven't. Experiencing God is experiencing God, and that is true religion.

It is a horrid abomination to see in Christian temples a painted image either of Christ or of any saint.

For those who want 'to change life", 'to reinvent love,' God is nothing but a hindrance.

The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept "God."

Who will believe us when we say that we do not love these stuffed dummies—carved or painted images—when our deeds convict us? God hates and despises images, as I shall show. He considers them an abomination and says that all human beings are in his eyes as the things they love. Images are an abomination; it follows therefore that we too shall become abominable, if we love them.

The worshiping of other things, the showing of disrespect by thought, word, or deed, and the refusal to acknowledge our obligation to him—these things shut God out from our lives.

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.

One of the things that I picked up... was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way. Seeing what religious people [do] in the name of God...

Vision is the end of religion.