Anthony McCarten Quotes

There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you.

My father and mother were together because of their faith.

If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

God doesn't believe in atheists.

I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

I used to say to my late wife, 'I have great faith in the American people.'

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.

Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

I experience God as the power of love.

Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.

If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

Nor marry to unbelievers until they believe.

Matrimony is not to be secret but open, in the face of the church.

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

I still believe in love. I believe in marriage.

My husband and I have been married for 15 years. He is a priest in the Church of Sweden. I have a faith, but it's not so formal. We made our peace with that.