"Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life."
― John Updike
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Religion
More From John Updike
- "The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."
- "The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
- "A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
More In Religion
- "I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves."― E. O. Wilson
- "I’d make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting."― David Knopfler
- "Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building."― Bono