Jonathan Pryce Quotes

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life.

I've been to the Vatican more than anyplace else outside this country in the world. I am mesmerized by it.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Priests focus on the spiritual. As a lay person I could show people how to be good Catholics in the world.

I traveled with then-Senator Obama to Israel in 2008. I will never forget our time in the holy city of Jerusalem and following behind him as he approached the Western Wall - and even in the dark hours of that very early morning, it was a place bustling with energy afforded by one's faith.

I think the beauty of Catholicism is its consistency through both successes and difficulties. I've counted on my faith to give me strength through both training and competition - but also in school, with my family and everyday life.

Being a Muslim is very important to me, more important than anything, although sometimes travel makes it difficult for me to always pray when I want to.

For centuries, Tamil Nadu is a holy land of many religious scholars and saints who preached good things.

In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.

I'm a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I'm not that good at all.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.