John Updike Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

  John Updike

  Space, Religion, Stories

  John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.185, Random House

• The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

  John Updike

  Reality, Self, Guarantees That

  John Updike (1989). “Self-consciousness: memoirs”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

• Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

  John Updike

  Jobs, Religion, Literature

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.228, Random House

• In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

  John Updike

  Religion, Church, Weekdays

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