Joe Carnahan Quotes

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them.

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Religion is a disease, but a noble disease.

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.

I always say I'm Catholic in my complications and Buddhist in my aspirations.

Saying that you don't believe in magic but do believe in god is a bit like saying you don't have sex with dogs, except labradors.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.