Gunter Grass Quotes

I'd grown up very Catholic, parochial school, and Warlock was a way of working a lot of things out.

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.

I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.

I grew up Catholic, so I feel guilty about everything.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

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

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.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

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.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

There's lots of sins in this life. We're all sinners. If you don't believe in God and you don't believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

I know I'm a sinner.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

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

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

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 want to create the largest archive of great God debates in existence: a Web site that becomes a great resource for both Christians and atheists.