Walker Percy Quotes

The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

I went to church every Sunday...I understood Christmas and what Easter was about. I understood the persecution of Christ, the crucifixion of Christ, the Resurrection of Christ. I understood all that but I have to say that beyond that...for me, my knowledge after that was quite vague.

If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.

I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in.

I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.

Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good. Hence, the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism.

[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.

My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior - before the Reformation.

I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.

I'm spiritual. I'm religious. I'm a strong Christian and I'm a Catholic but I go to a Presbyterian Church. Occasionally I go to the Catholic church too. I take communion. I haven't transferred my membership or anything.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away sects, which believed that God accepted the torture-sacrifice of an innocent man in exchange for not visiting a worse fate on the rest of humanity. The sect is called Christianity.

I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.

The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always encouraged. A world ofsuperstition and folly have grown up around its forms and ceremonies. But the truth in it is one of the deep sentiments in human nature.

Very less to say, I can make one Catholic or Protestant.

We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.