Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Quotes

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

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

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

I just hope that people realize that our Savior is something that can bring peace.

I can relate to somebody wanting to have something to believe in.

Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Faith is something that's been created to help people get through life.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

For as long as I can remember, my mother went to church every single Sunday. She was born and raised in Romania as a person with limited means, and faith was something she could rely on - something that was free.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Revealed religion had no weight with me.

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.