Dustin Lance Black Quotes

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

My family is very religious.

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

In my life, my religion comes first, and obviously, my family comes second.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

Religions get lost as people do.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

Religion is such a path with people.

You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.

Culture' and 'cult' derive from the same word; what a culture worships defines it.

Humanity is the child of religion.

Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business.

I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots.

I believe religion is important for every person.

I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15 of being quite fanatically Catholic. I was going to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying, all that stuff. But when I started scrutinizing it, it just fell apart so quickly.

You know, Christianity has its own superstition anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.