John Updike Quotes

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

Faith is something that's been created to help people get through life.

Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

As long as you believe in Him, no matter what happens in your life, understand that it's all for a purpose.

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.

Without faith, life is futile.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

I believe God will make a way.

I just hope that people realize that our Savior is something that can bring peace.

I can relate to somebody wanting to have something to believe in.

I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

My hope, my real hope, is that whatever you hold in your heart, whatever you truly believe, and you've put your faith in, that that's what 's waiting for you. I think that'd be wonderful. You know what I mean? I think that would be the culmination of the life of the devout, or the believer.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.