Vita Sackville-West Quotes

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God

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

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

I believe in God.

God is very important to me. I love her.

Fear first made gods in the world.

I have a strong belief in God.

Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.

God: personified incomprehensibility.

I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man.

Where mystery begins religion ends.

God is alive. He has created every one of us, and he knows us all. He is so great that He has time for the little things in our lives: “Every hair of your head is numbered”. God is alive, and makes sense to become a priest: the world needs priests, pastors, today, tomorrow and always, until the end of time.

But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs

Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart

I'm a fairly religious person, so I believe in some things that sound a little crazy I'm sure, depending on where you're standing. I believe in leaving room for things that you can't explain in the universe, and you don't have to be religious to leave room for those things.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always shared one thing. We all had the Creator. We used different names, different faces, and different prayers, but God was the universal constant for man. God was the symbol we all shared...the symbol of all the mysteries of life that we could not understand. The ancients had praised God as a symbol of our limitless human potential, but that ancient symbol had been lost over time. Until now.