Henry Miller Quotes

Christian attitudes are still important in a society even if they are no longer connected with belief.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Man makes holy what he believes.

I look at the Star of David as a symbol of righteousness.

And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

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 think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the Spirit of the Lord that I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.