"I certainly have
found faith important, but I do have friends who are totally without it and who
cope admirably with life, sometimes under difficult circumstances, and who live
extremely good lives. It isn’t a given that if you have faith, you’re happy, and
if you don’t have it you’re miserable; or that you have it and you’re good, and
you don’t have it and you’re less good; or even that you have it and you’re
comforted, and you don’t have it and you’re not comforted. I sometimes think
that religious faith is rather like musicality. You’re either born with it or
not. Some of my friends who haven’t got faith find it rather a surprising thing
to have. Religion is a dimension of life of which they have no understanding,
really.” —English novelist of crime and dystopian fiction P.D. James
(1920-2014), quoted by Trudy Bush, “
Reasons for Writing: An Interview with P. D. James,” The Christian Century, Sept. 27, 2000
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