“It felt good to bring my forehead to the ground. Immediately it felt like a deeply religious contact.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Bapu Ghandi said, "All religions are true." I just want to love God," I blurted out, and looked down, red in the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“When I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God? After that meeting the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Bapu Ghandi said, "All religions are true." I just want to love God, " I blurted out, and looked down, red in… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are no grounds for going beyond a scientific explanation of reality and no sound reason for believing anything but our sense… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“A number of my fellow religious studies majors- muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“But it was hard, oh, it was hard. Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“But I don't insist. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I entered the church, without fear this time, for it was now my house too. I offered prayers to Christ, who is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“But we should not cling! A plague upon fundamentalists and literalists! I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith. Like me, they go as far… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“And that wasn't the end of it. There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God? — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel Copy Share
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater. — Yann Martel Copy Share
“Uvek ima onih koji uzmu za pravo da brane Boga, kao da je Poslednja stvarnost, kao da je temeljni ram postojanja nešto slabašno i… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with… — Yann Martel Copy Share
