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Christianity Quotes by Yann Martel

12 Christianity quotes by Yann Martel

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Yann Martel’s twelve short remarks on Christianity provide a literary window into his contemplative side. Though concise, these lines capture a subtle curiosity and narrative flair that invite readers to ponder belief through a storyteller’s eye.

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Christianity is a religion in a rush.

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“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.”

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Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.

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“I knew very little about the religion. [Christianity] It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.”

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Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation…

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“Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation…

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“When I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love,…

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Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are…

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“And so, when she first heard of Hare Krishnas, she didn’t hear right. She heard “Hairless Christians”, and that is what they…

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The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice…

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“Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation…

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“I know a woman here in Toronto who is very dear to my heart. She was my foster mother. I call her…

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“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.”

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“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,…

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“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.”

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“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,…

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I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,…

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High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate…

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“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.”

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“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws…

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“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were…

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“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…

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“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open…

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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of…

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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

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“Uvek ima onih koji uzmu za pravo da brane Boga, kao da je Poslednja stvarnost, kao da je temeljni ram postojanja nešto slabašno i…

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“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…

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