Joshua Cohen Quotes

My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?'

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

I love religion.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

I listen and talk to God daily.

Faith helps many people make sense of the world around them. Faith gives them a spiritual connection to something larger.

I always believed in Jesus and God as a little boy.

Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

I'm just someone who marvels at God.

I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.