Tracy Chapman Quotes

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

I love religion.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

I don't think you need religion.

I'm not a religious person by any means. But I'm curious.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

If you have a film that's talking about God, you would think that it would appeal to people that consider themselves religious, whatever denomination they're attached to.

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.

Religion is constantly being talked about, debated, pondered, worried about.

I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.