David Sedaris Quotes

I think there's a passion for God like never before.

Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now, are quite willing to die for our unjustified beliefs, and millions more, it seems, are willing to kill for them.

I'm not even religious, but I get fanaticism. I get the appeal of it.

I was a convert to Catholicism, and converts are much more devout.

I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually.

Went to church and fasted all day.

A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church.

Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.

There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.

Religion is the pious worship of God.

There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind.

I want God to be first in my life, so I'm putting Him first in my life today.