True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
Well, one of the problems of working on a story with a character that sacred in the religions of the world or in a picture about that person, is that you have to forget about that and play it as real as you can because you can't look at yourself and judge yourself.
For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.
A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.