Robert Silverberg Quotes

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

I believe in the teachings of Christ. I think that's a good way to set your moral compass.

I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'

Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything.

I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.

Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

Try to live as if there were a God

Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.

If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.

Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.