Religion Quotes in Hyperion

A pilgrimage is, by definition, a long journey to a spiritual place. We know right off the bat that there's going to be some soul-searching on this journey. At least these pilgrims don't wear buckles on their heads.

The first line of the Priest's Tale tells us that not much separates those who are (literally) crazy about their religion from those who have renounced it altogether. So which one is Hoyt, and which is Father Paul Duré?

Different interpretations of the Koran still exist hundreds of years in the future. Will people ever be able to definitively pin down any religious text, or will these interpretations always change and evolve?

Sure, one of those religions Silenus was involved in is "the Church of Jake's Nada" but you gotta have faith, right? What's the difference between "the Church of Jake's Nada" and more established, well-respected religions?

Here Martin is equating writing poetry with divine inspiration, like getting a phone call from God. Ring ring. "Hi, Martin. Yeah, it's God. How are you? That's nice. Look, I just had a few thoughts, and wanted you to take a few notes. You have a pen ready?"

Breaking a promise is never a good thing, but when breaking that promise involves destroying an entire planet, including the Promised Land supposedly belonging to millions of people, we're not sure how that can be forgiven.

When Rachel asks her father Sol this question, he says that wants to believe, but that his scholarly knowledge is in direct opposition to his faith. It's strange that even though he's allegedly waiting for God, he doesn't see a God in the prophetic dreams he has.

Sol's revelation about God is a lot like a kid's revelation about Santa Claus. Just how can he be in every house at once on Christmas Eve?

Building God, which seems to involve recreating the entire original planet Earth, is still probably easier than assembling the LEGO Star Wars Destroyer Droid. Hm: God as Earth sounds a lot like the Gaia hypothesis.