Simon Greenleaf Quotes

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

Human beings are religious animals.

People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.

I love religion.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

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

I suppose I've always had a very genuine curiosity about religion. I loved the atmosphere of churches, the ethos; I adored Evensong.

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

I am a deeply spiritual and religious person both privately and publicly.

From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.

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

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?'

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

Religion is constantly being talked about, debated, pondered, worried about.

I hold religious tendencies, but I'm not devout by any means.

I'm a religious man. I believe in God.

I believe in God. Spirit, I'm big time on that.

Humanity is the child of religion.

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.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

I love the Bible.

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.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

I'm a very religious person.