Laurence Sterne Quotes

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

All gods have good points, just as have all priests

When you objectively observe the most spiritual area to which modern people devote themselves, the religions, ask yourself if the basis of modern culture, particularly in religion, is not human self-interest. It is typical of modern sermons that the preacher criticizes people for their selfishness.

I always say my Christianity and my virginity don't limit options. I think that they refine my options.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God's word.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?