Moliere Quotes

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must touch and be touched, the tongue on flesh, and that touch is the result of the monologues, the idea, the philosophies which led to faith; but in the instant of the touch there is no place for thinking, for talking; the silent touch affirms all that, and goes deeper: it affirms the mysteries of love and mortality.

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.

While it may be disappointing, I have to confess to people who ask for my insights on the meaning of it all that astronomy doesn't provide any clearly useful data on matters of sin and souls.

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

'Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 'relegere,' meaning 'to reread', while others say it's from religare, meaning 'to connect' or 'link.' Literature is life's fastener.

I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God

True progress consists in submitting the human element which corrupts liberty, to the divine element which purifies it. Society has followed a different path in looking upon the empire of faith as dead; and in proclaiming the empire of reason and the will of man.

Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality is soulfulness.