Quotes by Updike, John

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence k >>

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rai >>

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to kno >>

Quotations about God

It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselv >>

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always sta >>

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fa >>

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.

Updike, John