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Religion Quotes by Yann Martel

45 Religion quotes by Yann Martel

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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, and a deep trust that can feel both loving and hard, like a tiny mustard seed growing into a larger belief. The collection also includes sharp critiques, calling religion darkness, and argues that scientific experience should guide understanding more than any scripture.

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Religion is more than rite and ritual.

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“I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness”

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“He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas.”

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Christianity is a religion in a rush.

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“A germ of religious exaltation, no bigger than a mustard seed.”

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To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

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Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.

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“We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.”

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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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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it…

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“The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.”

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“Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.”

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I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

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I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

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“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.”

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“It felt good to bring my forehead to the ground. Immediately it felt like a deeply religious contact.”

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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very…

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Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both.…

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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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“We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God? After that meeting the…

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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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“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so…

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Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer…

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I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no…

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“A number of my fellow religious studies majors- muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall…

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“There are no grounds for going beyond a scientific explanation of reality and no sound reason for believing anything but our sense…

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“Bapu Ghandi said, "All religions are true." I just want to love God, " I blurted out, and looked down, red in…

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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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“I entered the church, without fear this time, for it was now my house too. I offered prayers to Christ, who is…

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“But it was hard, oh, it was hard. Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a…

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“But I don't insist. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that…

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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so…

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“It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith. Like me, they go as far…

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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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“But we should not cling! A plague upon fundamentalists and literalists! I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he…

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“And that wasn't the end of it. There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate…

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“I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.…

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“Bapu Ghandi said, "All religions are true." I just want to love God," I blurted out, and looked down, red in the…

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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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Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

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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…

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

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

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

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

“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…