Peter Hitchens Quotes

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn't always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

Religions get lost as people do.

Christian attitudes are still important in a society even if they are no longer connected with belief.

Religion is such a path with people.

In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.

I am a Christian and I don't want there to be any confusion about what I believe or who I am.

I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.

Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

I respect religion and will respect any religion.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken.

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: 'What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?'

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

Basic religion is the reason we have morals.

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.