Simone Weil Quotes

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

I'm strongly into the Bible; I'm strongly into God and religion.I'm pro-life and different things.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities are also important. The question of believing in a set of creedal statements is a lot less important, because I realize the Christian movement thrived then and can now on other elements of the tradition.

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

Americans think that they have a history, but it's nothing compared to Europe.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country.

Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.

The Constitution is man-made, so it is not perfect. It's not the basis of my beliefs. My belief system is based on the Scriptures which come from God.

We owe it to our children to defend our Christian culture.

It is not the Bible that produced religion and morals, but religion and morals that produced the Bible.

The essential principles of revealed religion are part of the common law.

Christian attitudes are still important in a society even if they are no longer connected with belief.