Dennis Potter Quotes

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

I have immense faith in God and I am spiritual too.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

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

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

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

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.

From a young age, I saw and placed importance on spirituality within religion.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

I believe in God. I am not ritualistic but I do pray every day.

I don't think you need to justify faith, faith is its own justification.