George MacDonald Fraser Quotes

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society.

Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.

I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.

Be ...a preacher of piety, not an exactor of tithes...

Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves.

We eat, drink, and sleep religion, but we do not do good.

Once, John and I were coming form a concert that he had played, and it was late in the morning. We heard a couple leaving, and the lady said, oh, I have to hurry home. I'm going to church tomorrow. And her friends said, church? You've already been to church.

We are a temple-building and a temple-attending people.

Went to church and fasted all day.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, or memorize the books of the Bible, I got my own special way

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.

I live in a country where 90 or 95 percent of the people profess to be religious, and maybe they are religious, though my experience of religion suggests that very few people are actually religious in more than a conventional sense.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

If I'm going to see my mom, I'm going to church!

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

Labor is the handmaid of religion.