Christianity Quote by Yann Martel

“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.”

— Yann Martel

“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,…

— Yann Martel

“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.”

— Yann Martel

“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,…

— Yann Martel

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,…

— Yann Martel

High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate…

— Yann Martel

“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.”

— Yann Martel

“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws…

— Yann Martel

“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were…

— Yann Martel

“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…

— Yann Martel

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

— Yann Martel

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

— Yann Martel