Elaine Pagels Quotes

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

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.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

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

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

'Boxers' was more time consuming simply because it was longer, but 'Saints' was definitely harder. I think it's just hard to talk about faith in general.

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

Religion is all bunk.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.

Religion is an irrational construct.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.

Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer Catholic, that is to say, Universal.

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.