Rory Stewart Quotes

In no religion is beef-eating a part of faith.

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.

I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.

People like the Mormons and the Scientologists, who I think should combine and make a Mormontologist because what they believe is just so out there it's just laughable.

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

I actually go to church. I know it's hard for you to believe. It's only because you know that Jesus on the cross? I love his smooth hairless body.

Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought.

THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.

It is important not to confuse race and religion.

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

Can accidentally eating halal food make you Muslim? Yes, the same way drinking a cosmo can make you gay.

The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

I'm Catholic, and my wife is Catholic. We're very religious. We go to church. We pray every night. We pray at dinner. To me, Catholics regard themselves as very Christian. Some Christians view Catholics as not necessarily Christian.

There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.

When you look at belief in such things - as do you go to heaven, is there a devil - we have more in common with (Muslin countries) Turkey and Iran and Syria than we do with European nations and Canada and nations that, yes, I would consider more enlightened that us.

One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.

It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH.

Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, "Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we come here?" He sucked thoughfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. "I've been wrong before," he said. And that pretty much summed up what theology there was to find in the Foxman home.

I looked into her eyes. "Mom, who do you pray to?" I just pray, Daniel. That's all.

Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

It's not about terror or anything else, it's about politics, and so it becomes more about politics than it does about faith. Orthodox rabbis - that is about faith. There's not a single Orthodox rabbi on this list. This is all Reformed rabbis that were - that made this list.