Susan Sarandon Quotes

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.

Where dogmatics exists at all, it exists only with the will to be a Church dogmatics, a dogmatics of the ecumenical Church.

I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously.

For a while, I called myself an agnostic, which was me wanting to maintain a connection to the culture I was raised in while also undercutting a lot of the beliefs I had.

I can't believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.

Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.

You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!

I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.

As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God.

There is no salvation for those outside the Church.

The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?

He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as "rank presumption".

There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

By the time I went to the Catholic University of America, which was the time the priests were all leaving with the nuns, the more I studied about the Bible and how it came about, the more I lost my faith.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

Believing in gods always causes confusion.

Organized religion is primarily man putting words in God's mouth. That's how I basically feel about that. But, I do believe in believing and I admire it. I just don't think it should be exclusive or judgmental.

Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.

Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.