Tillie Olsen Quotes

...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

Music is my religion.

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it's about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it on their own terms.

I'm not a Christian. My participation in music is so full blast, 24 hours a day. And that's my religion. I think I'm as spiritual as the pope, because I spend as much time in my spirituality as he does.

The thing I always found about the gospel music was that it reached further into your being if you like, your mind. It takes hold of you - especially if you sing it and play it.

I don't really consider myself religious. I view it more as a relationship. And if anyone thinks that's weird, then okay.

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself.

I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.

When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a work of Christian art. But to look at a work of art and then to make a judgment as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous. It is something we cannot know in any conclusive way. We can know only if it speaks within our own hearts, and leads us to living more deeply with Christ in God.

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

Religion is organized, and spirituality is what the individual feels in his relationship with truth and with God. And although spirituality may be expressed in a religion, many people are spiritual and never go to church. They aren't religious in the sense that they practice a certain type of discipline.

Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.

I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.