Quotes About Religion

The Lord of Light wants his enemies burnt. The Drowned God wants his enemies drowned. Why are all the gods such vicious cunts? Where is the god of tits and wine?

Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,(...) the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It's the ones who believe in gods who make the trouble. (Tyrion)

If I could pray with my cock, I'd be much more religious

The morning air was dark with the smoke of burning gods.

Cuando la gente se muere de hambre, no ve con buenos ojos a los sacerdotes que están tan gordos que no pueden caminar.

Jon could not find it in him to pray to any gods, old or new. If they were real, he thought, they were as cruel and implacable as winter.

Hundreds had come to the castle gates to bear witness to the burning of the Seven. The smell in the air was ugly. Even for soldiers, it was hard not to feel uneasy at such an affront to the gods most had worshiped all their lives.

The gods are never that good.

May the Father judge him justly. Now, there's an awful prospect.

Where were the gods then? The gods don't care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

The High Septon was the true king of Westeros, in all but name.

Arya did not know any Many-Faced God, but if he answered prayers, he might be the god she sought.

The septons were always going on about how the Father Above judges us all. If the Father would be so good as to topple over and crush Joff like a dung beetle, I might even believe it.

Red Rahloo means nothing here. You will only make the old gods angry. They are watching from their island.

Joffrey received loving kisses from the bride's father and his two new brothers, Loras and Garlan. No one seemed in any great rush to kiss Tyrion. When the king and queen had taken their seats, the High Septon rose to lead a prayer.

Godless? Why, Aeron, I am the godliest man ever to raise sail! You serve one god, Damphair, but I have served ten thousand. From Ib to Asshai, when men see my sails, they pray.

Your people will not love you if you take from them the gods they have always worshiped, and give them one whose very name sounds queer on their tongues.

now?" Theon seldom prayed at all, but that was not something you confessed

Deliberately, women are given a deplorable education…. While man frees himself from constraining civil and religious bonds, he is only too glad to have woman hold tightly to the Christian principle of suffering and keeping her silence.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.