Keira Knightley Quotes

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

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.

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

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved. And I still worry about it a little. I don't believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell.

I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

I will never turn to God.

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

Being a Baptist won't keep you from sinning, but it'll sure as hell keep you from enjoying it.

Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.

You should always take what I say about religion with a grain of salt, because the 7 deadly sins are more like my seven daily activities. I try to check them all off at least once a day. All of them except gluttony; my trainer keeps that under control.

Since I am as evil as can be, I do need religion to offset my evilness!

Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly. "What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts. "I was just seeing if you were listening.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.