Discussion Quote by Isak Dinesen

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to…

— John Newton

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

— Nic Pizzolatto

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

— David Cassidy

I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform…

— Wendy C. Ortiz

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had…

— Rupert Murdoch

I was a young woman who had grown up in the mountains of Montana as a Protestant Methodist in a pretty good social gospel…

— Diana L. Eck

I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt earlier with…

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Everyone, from the Mother Superior to the priests to my parents--they were so upset and reproachful...I felt as if something they all passionately believed…

— Philip Pullman

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of…

— Robert Jay Lifton

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell…

— Geraldine Brooks

I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and…

— Sigmund Freud