Neil Gaiman Quotes

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

I've always felt like there are certain politicians that wear their religion on their sleeve in a way that you almost feel is disingenuous. I think that your faith has to be first personal. I struggle with those people that preach something and go back behind closed doors and live differently.

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

Sometimes it feels so good just to be bad!

Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle or a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven, than for a politician to lay aside disguise.

Being a Baptist won't keep you from sinning, but it'll sure as hell keep you from enjoying it.

I can't help it. I want to be a good Catholic, but I'm a hedonist.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

If you impose morality on people, they will find ways to circumvent their guilt. They will make offerings to temples - or other places of worship - but also continue doing things that make them feel guilty.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Fear comes by hearing and a hearing by the word of the devil. The lies of Satan.

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.

Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.

Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.

If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?

Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.

I've committed adultery in my heart.