George Orwell quotes about faith & the church
9 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as George Orwell wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Drawn from the 146 in the full collection.
Faith vanishes, but the need for faith remains the same as before.
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.
Life, if the grave really ends it, is monstrous and dreadful.
It is all or nothing. Either life on earth is a preparation for something greater and more lasting, or it is meaningless, dark, and dreadful.
You stick to the Christian scheme of things, but you leave Paradise out of it.
Once a priest always a priest.
There is no armour against fate.
And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money.
Money is what God used to be.
From the books
Every book with a quote collection of its own, each line verified against the text.
- A Clergyman's Daughter quotes · 10 lines (1935)
- Animal Farm quotes · 11 lines (1945)
- Burmese Days quotes · 11 lines (1934)
- Coming Up for Air quotes · 12 lines (1939)
- Critical Essays quotes · 14 lines (1946)
- Down and Out in Paris and London quotes · 8 lines (1933)
- Homage to Catalonia quotes · 12 lines (1938)
- Inside the Whale and Other Essays quotes · 10 lines (1940)
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying quotes · 10 lines (1936)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four quotes · 17 lines (1949)
- The Lion and the Unicorn quotes · 13 lines (1941)
- The Road to Wigan Pier quotes · 11 lines (1937)
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