Amy Brenneman Quotes

When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being religious means. A lot of people assume that if you write about early Christianity, you must be some kind of Sunday-school teacher.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

I think there's a difference between God and religion.

My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.

I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.