Chaim Potok Quotes

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

If you have a film that's talking about God, you would think that it would appeal to people that consider themselves religious, whatever denomination they're attached to.

Harvard pulsates with life and thought of all kinds, and religion should not be left out of its ongoing discussions.

Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

I'm not a religious person, but I read the Bible many years ago.

I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence - that's as close to godliness as I can get.

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.

My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

I am a Christian, but I also don't really see myself as a religious person. I see myself as more of a spiritual person.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Man makes holy what he believes.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

I don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.