Religion Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

“There are Christians, and there are Christians.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

organization is the religion of the single parent.

— Barbara Kingsolver

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“When the spirit passed through him he groaned, throwing body and soul into his weekly purge. The "Amen enema", as I call…

— Barbara Kingsolver

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

— Barbara Kingsolver

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its…

— Barbara Kingsolver

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The purpose of art is to elevate the spirit or to pay a surgeon’s bill. Or both. It can help a person…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And…

— Barbara Kingsolver

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“But other people fast or walk long pilgrimages to honor the spirit of what they believe makes our world whole and lovely.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Our culture is not unacquainted with the idea of food as a spiritually loaded commodity. We're just particular about which spiritual arguments…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“So you make this deal with the gods. You do these dances and they'll send rain and good crops and the whole…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Most of what's known about religious practices in pre-Hispanic Mexico has come to us through a Catholic parish priest named Hernando Ruiz…

— Barbara Kingsolver