Ernest Hemingway Quotes

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

I don't know what I believe in. I try not to think about it. I don't want to think about it.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.

I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

A lot of people just think that that's unreasonable or preposterous. But you know, if everybody chose to do it God's way, the world would be a lot better off.

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to.