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"All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision."

Maria Monk 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 Maria Monk

• "Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith."

• "All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision."

• "My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal and in that city I spent most of my life."