Jay Parini Quotes

Families need a spiritual bond with one another and with God. God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

True faith is focused in and on the Lord Jesus Christ and always leads to action.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

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

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

You must have faith to pray. You must have faith to ponder the word of God. You must have faith to do those things and go to those places which invite the Spirit of Christ and the Holy Ghost.

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

Why do people stick with their God? That’s what they have.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage, and such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him.

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

Depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature

[Religious] superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

RELIGION IS DOING; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. Whether he likes it or not he shows his attitude towards religion by his actions and he can show his attitude only by his actions. Therefore if his actions are opposed to those which are demanded by a given religion he cannot assert that he belongs to that religion.

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge; this, I take it, is the reason why Christians are distinguished from the rest of the world, not by faith, nor by charity, nor by the other fruits of the Holy Spirit, but solely by their opinions, inasmuch as they defend their cause, like everyone else, by miracles, that is by ignorance, which is the source of all malice; thus they turn a faith, which may be true, into superstition.

I've met people of great faith. I sat in the home of Billy Graham and in the residence of Cardinal Dolan and prayed with these men of God.

I feel like 'Leftovers' is dealing with subject matter that's kind of taboo when you're talking about religion and faith. They found a way to make it mysterious and intriguing without making people upset.