James Acaster Quotes

For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church.

My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are these men who just dictate that this is how you have to live your life or you are going to burn in hell.

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

I used to believe in God as a child. God, for me, was linked with hope.

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.

I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.

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.

Religion is the best business. It does have many of the same problems as other business. It has to market, manage, account for and handle money, but it has one profound advantage. Religion does not have to deliver in this life.

I am a deeply religious unbeliever.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I'm assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts, but I do believe in God.

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

If you are going to go to Heaven, I'm going to Heaven. But I don't believe in Heaven.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

The atheist has no hope.

Some people tend to believe that I'm a strong believer, a strong Christian, but that's not true. I'm not a strong believer. I'm very weak.