Penn Jillette Quotes

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Religon is misunderstood mythology

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

God doesn't believe in atheists.

I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

I remember when we had to pick our major freshman year, I chose comparative religion. It came to me out of the blue. I am amazed at how interested I still am in those ideas, especially the way spirituality is expressed in the world and in art.

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

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

You know what, I'm probably one of the most blessed people there's ever been, and I thank God for it.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.