Publius Papinius Statius Quotes

Nearly every tribe and nearly every human being has gods. Belief in gods is all over the place. It's universal. It squeaks and squoozes from every pore of humanity.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

I love religion.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I listen and talk to God daily.

I always believed in Jesus and God as a little boy.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

Fear created the first gods in the world.