Ernest Hemingway quotes about faith & the church
12 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as Ernest Hemingway wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Drawn from the 165 in the full collection.
That is not love. That is only passion and lust. When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
Only being sent away from you. You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.
It is never hopeless. But sometimes I cannot hope. I try always to hope but sometimes I cannot.
It is in defeat that we become Christian.
The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.
But there in my country it is understood that a man may love God. It is not a dirty joke.
You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.
It’s sort of what we have instead of God.
I was a little ashamed, and regretted that I was such a rotten Catholic, but realized there was nothing I could do about it, at least for a while, and maybe never, but that anyway it was a grand religion, and I only wished I felt religious and maybe I would the next time.
“I’m damned bad for a religious atmosphere,” Brett said. “I’ve the wrong type of face.”
“Some people have God,” I said. “Quite a lot.”
Montoya could forgive anything of a bull-fighter who had aficion. He could forgive attacks of nerves, panic, bad unexplainable actions, all sorts of lapses. For one who had aficion he could forgive anything.
From the books
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- A Farewell to Arms quotes · 68 lines (1929)
- The Sun Also Rises quotes · 86 lines (1926)
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