Religion Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“He tells stories of the gods, but his yarn is spun from the ungodly, human heart.”

— Arundhati Roy

“What he'd like to say is that he's lived it, if not the entire breadth and depth of the Christian faith then certainly the…

— Ben Fountain

“There is a savagery in all of us,”

— Jane Johnson

“the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”

— George Eliot

“In fact, I don’t understand religion at all and as far as I can see the only thing it does is hasten the slaughter…

— Beth McMullen

“But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the same way…

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.”

— Anne Carson

“That was the man's real trouble, not the savage and uncanny civilizations he encountered--he kept forgetting what he had.”

— Colson Whitehead

“Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from…

— Peter S. Beagle

“He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.”

— William Golding

“There’s so much to explore rather to talk about religions.”

— Vikash Shrivastava

“He was hungry to learn about things. Unlike most of us, he was the sort of person who insisted on living out his beliefs.”

— Wayne Westerberg