Religion Quote by Walter Jon Williams

“Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--…

— G.K. Chesterton

“it always annoyed him when people implied you had to have a religion in order to hold to any standards of behavior.”

— Anne Tyler

“Like the rest of the devout, he was incapable of understanding that the Holy One's face is never turned away but constantly looks down…

— Frederick Buechner

“When Silas said Gabriel was a priest, I assumed he meant to a real congregation, not the caretaker of an empty building threatening to…

— Rachel Higginson

“Sometimes it was difficult to accept the terrible lengths people would go to for their beliefs, particularly when they fooled themselves into thinking they…

— Anna Lee Huber

“he feared it was overly restricting itself to a mere repristination of the ecclesiastical confessions and so was running the risk of being able…

— Hammann Konrad

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they…

— Aristotle

“A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people.”

— Emil Cioran

“but it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in…

— Charles Williams

“In short, the self-sufficient, wholly other, transcendent, and holy God condescended to create a world and creatures, knowing that they would reject him and…

— Glenn R. Kreider

“[T]hat his cheating and his bitterness and his cruelty were the revolt of his will ... against a deep-rooted instinct of holiness, against a…

— Somerset Maugham Blanchet