Etgar Keret Quotes

Theology is unnecessary.

My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.

I'm culturally Jewish but, like most scientists, an atheist: I don't believe there's a God or supernatural world. Buddhism offers guidance on what to do in a world without God: It opines that truly being present in the world‚ experiencing and hanging out with your loved ones, provides all the significance you could want.

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

I think there's a lot that's beautiful about religion and very inspiring, obviously, but I do think that God needs to be rescued from religion actually.

You need a team that speaks your language.

No religion is better than an unnatural one.

The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to be aware of that.

You don't need the right facts if you have the right inflection.

Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed.