Moliere Quotes

Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

I'm not a perfect Muslim; I think none of us are perfect human beings. I do the five pillars of Islam, you know, I pray five times a day.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

I'm kind of kooky, but do I look like a religious nut?

I think deep down I'm spiritual, but there's nothing I practice.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.

There is a business side to me and a spiritual side.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.

God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds. They follow Christ, but far away; they wander and they doubt. I'll serve him in a better way, and live his precepts out.

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.