Robert Gober Quotes

The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.

I believe religion is important for every person.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Faith helps many people make sense of the world around them. Faith gives them a spiritual connection to something larger.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

Religion is more like response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

I remember when we had to pick our major freshman year, I chose comparative religion. It came to me out of the blue. I am amazed at how interested I still am in those ideas, especially the way spirituality is expressed in the world and in art.

I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god - no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

I talk about religion because it's one of the ways human beings find power and belonging. Religion is more than just that - I think faith traditions give us ways to talk about experiences of the numinous, too - but power and belonging are a big part of it.

Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.

Millions of Americans find community, comfort and support in their faith.

The acknowledgement of the Judeo Christian God is not religion.

It is a mistake to assume that God is interested only, or even chiefly, in religion.

Religion is a disease, but a noble disease.

Religion can thrive only in a personal universe.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

My religion lies in my composition.

I believe in God; I'm not saying I'm highly religious.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.