Joseph Brodsky Quotes

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.

I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

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 am a Christian, but I also don't really see myself as a religious person. I see myself as more of a spiritual person.

My grandmother was a Muslim. My mother is Christian. And I don't know what I am, but I believe in God.

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

I may be a good Catholic, a bad Catholic or a so-so Catholic, but that's who I am.

I don't consider myself any denomination.

I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.

My Lutheran faith is important to me.

I'm not a practising Muslim.

I'm Jewish, not Catholic, but I'm a spiritual person.

Well, anyway, I'm not a Catholic.

You know. I don't think I'm gonna be Jewish for very long.

I honestly don't know what they mean by a devout Catholic.

I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.

Never forget that Hitler was a Catholic.

I didn't know you were Catholic.

I really really love Christ, but I'm not a Christian.

If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?

And Bobby [Jindal] and I are both Catholics.

How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.