Where Faith Meets Art Quotes & Sayings

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful. — Richard Dawkins

Because when one of your family members gets cancer, you all get cancer. It might not be the same kind, but it will still eat at you until there's nothing left inside. — Ali Novak

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning. — Madeleine L'Engle

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper. — Robert Alton Harris

You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it's true. — James Salter

There is nothing that I, personally, can do, except be there. At my family's suggestion I begin taking my little six-pound electronic typewriter with me so that I can write while Hugh is napping. This helps. For, like most of us, I feel frustrated when a situation arises where I am totally helpless, where there is nothing I can do to make anything better. I can, I hope, help Hugh a little by my presence, by the touch of my hand. But there is nothing specifically for me to do. And I think of a friend who has a coffee mug with the inscription: DON'T JUST DO SOMETHING. STAND THERE. — Madeleine L'Engle

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. — Simon Mawer

I wouldn't use the word 'man'. The Hebrew is ha-adam, which I would argue encompasses both sexes. — Michel Faber

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion. — T. S. Eliot

Allegories drawn to great length will always break. — Samuel Johnson

We are currently facing many hurdles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope. — Widad Akreyi

We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that. — Gloria Steinem