Joanne Harris Quotes

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

Went to church and fasted all day.

Fasting is a medicine.

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

I don't think I've ever prayed in my entire life, never sat and had an imaginary chat with God.

Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes. And then I think, I suppose I should go to church now. But after going to so many churches in my life and trying to go with the flow with so many denominations, Eastern and Western, I don't really feel I need to go to church at all.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.

Some go to church to take a walk; some go there to laugh and talk. Some go there to meet a friend; some go there their time to spend. Some go there to meet a lover; some go there a fault to cover. Some go there for speculation; some go there for observation. Some go there to doze and nod; the wise go there to worship God.

It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH.

Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.

Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

I guess that's the business of devotees - to make you think of God.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

I got into cooking out of self-defense.

I think that religion is an integral part of human needs, but the question also is how you understand religion.

I'll starve to death before I'll cook for myself. I think I could survive a week without eating.

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't.

In Ramadan, you should eat less and think more.