Quotes about "Faith & Spirituality"

I consider myself to be a relatively sceptical person. I like to see evidence for myself, and try to avoid speculating beyond available evidence. But I also have to accept some things on trust. ”

When 'Next to Normal' won the Pulitzer, that was the moment I felt the show was being defined. There's a certain confidence that comes with being selected. ”

In the act of reading, especially reading fiction, where a world is being created, all kinds of matters of belief come into play. ”

I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life. ”

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church. ”

For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution. ”

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry. ”

I think a misconception among many non-religious people is that anyone with a strong faith is, in all ways and at all times, blindly consistent, unwavering, unquestioning. ”

I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things. ”

I think 'Charming Billy' ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in. ”