Anne Rice Quotes

I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

You seem much too intelligent to believe in God.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

I eventually got to the point where I was like, 'Well, if I can't believe in the Big Bang Theory and be a good Christian, then maybe I'm not a good Christian.'

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 Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be a source of infinite satisfaction to them, individually, I shouldn't for one second be so presumptuous as to make a choice among the many thousands of recorded revelations of truth, accepting one at the expense of all the others: I might so easily choose wrong and get into eternal trouble. And you must admit that the selection is wide, and dangerous to the amateur.

Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes. And then I think, I suppose I should go to church now. But after going to so many churches in my life and trying to go with the flow with so many denominations, Eastern and Western, I don't really feel I need to go to church at all.

You got your God and so do I.

When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I was surprised, but not really, to learn that maybe 60 percent claimed a belief in a God of some sort, including people I would have bet were unregenerate skeptics. Others just shrugged. They don't think about this stuff. It doesn't matter to them. They can't know, they won't beat themselves up trying to know and for that matter they don't care if their kids believe or not.

We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.

I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

Just like I believe God is everywhere, I believe that whether it's nature, whether it's sitting on a bike in spin class, that can be church, too, for me.

I believe in God, and that's a personal relationship that I have, but I'm not religious in any way.

Dustin Runnels came up to me and asked me if I made my peace with God today. I don't know if I ever had a fight with him.

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.

The Christian is an idol breaker.

Even if I believed there was a real Jesus, I wouldn't fall for that line of hogwash. The "Virgin" Mary should get a posthumous medal for telling the biggest goddamn lie that was ever told. Anybody who believes that will believe that the moon is made out of green cheese.

You can be born-again and believe in Jesus, believe in Jesus' ideas and try to live them out, without becoming totally intolerant of other people.

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.