Quotes About Religion

There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.

When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not be socially desirable, but will be real in the sight of God.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

That's the trouble with you preachers, he said. You've all got too good to believe in anything, and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true." May 19, 1962

W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet all the time. Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

I don't really think the standard of judgment, the missing link, you spoke of that you find in my stories emerges from any religion but Christianity, because it concerns specifically Christ and the Incarnation, the fact that there has been a unique intervention in history. It's not a matter in these stories of Do Unto Others. That can be found in any ethical cultural series. It is the fact of the Word made flesh.

That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.

This shiffer-robe belongs to Hazel Motes. Do not steal it or you will be hunted down and killed.

She had never given much thought to the devil for she felt that religion was essentially for those people who didn't have the brains to avoid evil without it.

People only make us lonelier by reminding us of God.

A faith that just accepts is a child's faith and all right for children, but eventually you have to grow religiously as every other way, though some never do. What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. ... remember that these things are mysteries and that if they were such that we could understand them, they wouldn't be worth understanding. A God you understood would be less than yourself.

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stay's that way. Ask me about that church and I'll tell you it's the church that the blood of Jesus don't foul with redemption...Jesus was a liar.

What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

Mrs. May winced. She thought the word, Jesus, should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom. She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.

FLANNERY O'CONNOR Wise Blood

Cuando los dioses ya no existían y Cristo no había aparecido aún, hubo un momento único, desde Cicerón hasta Marco Aurelio, en que sólo estuvo el hombre.

I'm not even religious, but I get fanaticism. I get the appeal of it.

I am fascinated by Tudor times.

I haven't become a satanist, but I am fascinated by the character of the devil.