Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

Money is a kind of poetry.

I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.'

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

My view on music and the way that it's portrayed is that it's a religion.

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

I'm not a religious person, but I prefer God to money.

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.