Pauline Collins Quotes

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.

Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

There is no such thing as a saint without a past or a sinner without a future.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

I think there's good in everybody.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

Any simple claim that you need religion to be good is flat wrong.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.