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"Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life."

John Updike on Religion

More quotes about Religion

  • "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."

    Dalai Lama on Religion

  • "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Religion

  • "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

    C. S. Lewis on Religion

  • "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

    C. S. Lewis on Religion

  • "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

    Albert Camus on Religion

More quotes by John Updike

  • "Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone."

  • "I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."

  • "What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."

  • "Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."

  • "Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."

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