Quotes About Religion

Every human being was created by God, but not everyone is a child of God.

Gary wondered, 'If God intentionally made us all different, why should everyone be expected to love God in the same way?

You did not need a God (Sylvie was an unconfessed atheist) to believe in sin.

the bones of the church, its carcass and ribs, like medieval poetry—apse, chancel, nave, transept, clerestory, sacristy, misericord—

Of course, I don't believe in God,' Dr Kellet said. 'But I believe in heaven. One has to

The convent smelled like every Catholic church Jackson had ever been inside—an excess of incense and Mansion House polish.

of course, i don´t believe in god; Dr Kellet said. but i believe in heaven. one has to.

Florence did, however, attend Mass regularly in Corpus Christi, the Catholic church on Maiden Lane, and Freda wondered if she professed her contrition and was absolved (Florence had taught her the word). How handy it must be to have one's slate wiped clean on a regular basis.

Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing." Diana-worship was the nearest thing Mum had to a religion.

We're all primitives underneath, that's why we had to invent God, to be the voice of our conscience, or we would be killing each other left, right and centre.

When God says no to your harmless desires, it's time to get another God.

it could not be proven whether God existed, one might as well believe that he did, because there was everything to gain by believing and nothing to lose.

It was Harif who'd taught him to see that Saracens, Jews and Christians were following but different paths to the one God.

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

From Old Mortality ] ...religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.

The hope you get from religion is a three-ring, all-star hope because the risk is outrageous.

Well, I've never been to a church before. It would be a new experience for me." He went back to work. "You'd hate it." "Why?" "It's boring.

Dammit, Trotter. Don't try to make a stinking Christian out of me.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

The French children carried Baby Mine and me in our basket through the candlelit street to the church. While I was as mystified as ever by human religion and its tendency to answer simple questions with long, strange stories, that night I felt almost blessed.

For though I was raised Protestant, my true religion is actually civility.

For though I was raised Protestant, my true religion is actually civility. Please note that I do not call my faith "politeness." That's part of it, yes, but I say civility because I believe that good manners are essential to the preservation of humanity—one's own and others'—but only to the extent that that civility is honest and reasonable, not merely the mindless handmaiden of propriety.

After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other

He was twenty years old when he left New England. By the age of thirty he had exchanged Protestantism for Catholicism, anonymity for literary acclaim, and sanity for madness.