Chris Ofili Quotes

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

Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage

Humanity is the child of religion.

I respect religion and will respect any religion.

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

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

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

I love religion.

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.

I am basically a religious man.

Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.

I tell my children what I think myself: That religion is not necessarily convincing, but it is still interesting and not to be laughed at or denigrated.

The interesting part of my spiritual life is studying as much as you can. Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism and Shamanism and Judaism, Christianity - you try to learn what the precepts are, what the religion is, and ultimately, it's based in the same thought, it's based in the same outcome, you know.

I don't know many artists who've managed to go a career without bringing these things up. Saying the word 'God,' 'Jesus' - it happens in a million rock songs.

I am a religious person.

I think when you're dealing with faith, you want to be as responsible and sensitive to the material as you can.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

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.

All the religions are super funny to me.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Human beings are religious animals.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.