Laurence Housman Quotes

I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

To me, 'Blue Like Jazz' is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don - raised Christian and go off to college only to abandon their beliefs in order to fit in or be accepted.

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.

I broke with my religion in college.

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.

There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.

I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.

There have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how far people have wandered from God.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.

God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.

A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.