Sinead O'Connor Quotes

The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.

I'm an elder in a Presbyterian church. I've taken Scripture seriously. I really do believe, like my more religious colleagues, that religion should be a source of values. If you believe that, for God's sake, act on those values.

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything.

Instead of applauding sex addict pastors, we need to tell them to either preach the Gospel with their lives or get out from behind that pulpit!

People like the Mormons and the Scientologists, who I think should combine and make a Mormontologist because what they believe is just so out there it's just laughable.

I actually go to church. I know it's hard for you to believe. It's only because you know that Jesus on the cross? I love his smooth hairless body.

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!

When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason

I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on.

Some people believe that - pardon my language - in order to be good Catholics, we should be like rabbits. No.

I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

The Iranians are Moslems and the Iraqi are Moslems. Both are certain that there is no God but Allah and that Mohammed is his prophet and believe it with all their hearts. And yet, at the moment, Iraq doesn't trust Iran worth a damn, and Iran trusts Iraq even less than that. In fact, Iran is convinced that Iraq is in the pay of the Great Satan (that's God-fearing America, in case you've forgotten) and Iraq counters with the accusation that it is Iran who is in the pay of the Great Satan. Neither side is accusing the Godless Soviets of anything, which is a puzzle

You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held

Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I don't believe it has any negative impact on people's lives outside of intolerance. Why do I go to church? It's like asking, why did you marry that woman? You make up reasons, but it's probably just smell. I love the smell of candles. It's an aesthetic thing.

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

The Catholic Church... upheld feudalism, then monarchism, warning of growing evils and possible revolutions. In the same manner, and under the same reservations, she now upholds capitalism; but, above all things and forever, she upholds the Catholic Church.

I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp.

You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.

Christians are like a thirteen year old kid who still believes in Santa.