Bill Nye Quotes

Raised Roman Catholic up until 11 or 12, didn't stick. Went out into the world and did my own thing.

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

You know, for a long time I became almost atheist. I believed in nothing. And it was tough for me to believe in anything at all because I had believed so strongly. And I divorced myself of spirituality, I think.

I don't believe in the concept of religion.

I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.

I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.

I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.

Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason

I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.

For many people who were never religious or who leave the religion of their childhood behind, it's the experience of having children of your own that brings an urgency to the question of what you believe.

I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.

I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.

I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.