Religion Quotes

Question 1

Great barrack of a place… very ornate… a queer thing… a sort of RC church… frightful great fountain

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Question 2

The altar steps had a carpet of grass green, strewn with white and gold daisies.

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Question 3

I believed myself very near heaven, during those languid days at Brideshead.

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Question 4

Sebastian’s faith was an enigma to me at that time, but not one which I felt particularly concerned to solve. I had no religion.

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Question 5

Reminded me that he was a Catholic, but I took it as a foible, like his teddy bear.

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Question 6

It’s difficult for semi-heathens like Julia and me.

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Question 7

Somewhere to the left of me Sebastian and Mulcaster were raising Cain.

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Question 8

Her religion stood as a barrier between her and her natural goal.

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Question 9

I’m rescuing, a fallen man for a change. I’m saving Rex from mortal sin.

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Question 10

From that moment she shut her mind against her religion.

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Question 11

He doesn’t seem to have the least intellectual curiosity or natural piety.

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Question 12

You must treat him like an idiot child… he smiled openly and innocently at them all… What’s all the rumpus?

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Question 13

I don’t believe in hell for things like that. I don’t know that I believe in it for anything.

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Question 14

Poor mummy behaved like a martyr

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Question 15

Mummy can never forgive herself

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Question 16

He’s been something of a thorn in our sides here

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Question 17

An unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.

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Question 18

I’ve been punished a little for marrying Rex.

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Question 19

It is a matter of indifference whether you choose to live in sin with Rex or Charles or both… but in no case would Beryl consent to be your guest.”

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Question 20

They know all about it, Bridey and his widow; they’ve got it in black and white; they bought it for a penny at the church door. You can get anything there for a penny, in black and white

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Question 21

Living in sin, with sin

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Question 22

She’s got to take care of her sin. A pity it ever lived… Julia’s so good to her little, mad sin.

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Question 23

Mummy dying with it; Christ dying with it

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Question 24

He’s gone back to the Church, you know. Of course, he never left it as definitely as I did. I’ve gone too far; there’s no turning back now

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Question 25

He’s got a beard now, you know, and he’s very religious… He was always a little heathen.

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Question 26

He’ll develop little eccentricities of devotion, intense personal cults of his own

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Question 27

No one is ever holy without suffering.

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Question 28

I shall not sleep,’ he said. ‘Who is going to sit with me? Cara, carissima, you are fatigued. Cordelia, will you watch for an hour in this Gethsemane?

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Question 29

This little cloud, the size of a man’s hand, that was going to swell into a storm among us.

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Question 30

This tomfoolery… an unseemly incident… witchcraft and hypocrisy

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Question 31

Let’s get this clear,’ I said… is that right? ... Well, for heaven’s sake.’ I said, ‘what is the priest for?

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Question 32

Then I knelt, too, and prayed: ‘O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such thing as sin

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Question 33

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can’t shut myself out from his mercy.

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Question 34

A blitzed R.C. padre

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