Quote by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

“Strange things happened to them . . . some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that faith is refired forever.”

— John Steinbeck

“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.…

— Mark Twain

“There was no honor in grinding outsiders underfoot. There was no joy in burning their legacies. The highest good laid in lifting everyone up,…

— C.K. Gold

“Religion is about hospitality, solidarity, and responsibility or it is nothing at all.”

— Namsoon Kang

“They were tolerant of what most people in town would think of as moral lapses in each other, but quite intolerant of departures in…

— Alice Munro

“I was simple enough to think, that because my faith was plighted to another, there could be no danger in my being with you;…

— Jane Austen

“They were supposed to be different, different from all the people who didn't want things and didn't do things and weren't special. They were…

— Liza Klaussmann

“Most faiths, he thought, could stand to learn the virtue of keeping their devotion to themselves.”

— Edward W. Robertson

“Most people I knew defied religious rules; faith seemed to matter to them only in times of need.”

— Zohreh Ghahremani

“Note, Religion teaches good manners, and obliges us to give honour to those to whom honour is due.”

— Matthew Henry

“that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers, by that sense of duty which can alone suffice. They had…

— Jane Austen

“there was about his elders an ease in the holy place, and a levity, that made his soul uneasy.”

— James Baldwin