Religion Quotes by William Faulkner

13 Religion quotes by William Faulkner

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William Faulkner’s sparse but powerful reflections on religion reveal his Southern Gothic sensibility and the weight of history. Though limited to thirteen lines, they capture the paradoxes that haunt his literary world.

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You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

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People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

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“sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt.”

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“I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is in my heart: I know it is.”

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Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

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People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to…

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That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without,…

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It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't…

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It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't…

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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

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“No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's individual code of…

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We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being…

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“Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a…

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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

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“Luster returned, wearing a stiff new straw hat with a colored band and carrying a cloth cap. The hat seemed to isolate Luster's skull,…

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It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged…

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“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on…

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I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil,

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And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

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“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice,…

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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the…

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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

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“What modren ideas?” pap said. “I didn’t know there was but one idea about work—until it is done, it ain’t done, and when it…

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“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he…

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“She has no mother because fatherblood hates with love and pride, but motherblood with hate loves and cohabits.”

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“Byron listened quietly, thinking to himself how people everywhere are about the same, but that it did seem that in a small town, where…

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“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I…

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