Ian Faith: Fuck the napkin!
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.
It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.
Faith determines your destiny, not your reality.
Faith moves mountains. Religion strip-mines them.
A solicitor had looked up at the sky, swept blue by the wind, and had a sudden sense of religious consolation, a feeling that this life cannot possibly be all, and that it is not possible for consciousness to end with the end of life.
We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.
You know some religious scholars believe that when faced with overwhelming temptation you should commit a small sin just to relieve the pressure a bit.
At its most basic, the allure of fundamentalism, whether religious or ideological, liberal or conservative, is that it provides an appealing order to things that are actually disorderly.
Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself.
Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.
We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.
The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devot...
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as s...
