Darren Aronofsky Quotes

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

I don't seem to get solemn about it, and some people might not understand. That's why I never talk about it. I think it's all here -- in the mountains and the desert. I don't think God is a softie, either. In the end, it's better if people are forced back into -- well -- into being right, before they're too far gone. I think your temple is your everyday living.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

For me, my faith informs my life. I try and spend a little time on my knees every day. But it all for me begins with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.

I think God is in us. I think we manifest God in every moment.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.

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.

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present, He has bestowed on you, in the midst of your troubles to take solace in Him as often as you can. Lift up your heart to Him during your meals and in company; the least little remembrance will always be the most pleasing to Him. One need not cry out very loudly; He is nearer to us than we think.

It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.

I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

I never volunteer to talk about god or religion, but people feel compelled to talk about it.