Lawrence Pearsall Jacks Quotes

[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism.

I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.

I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.

Just cross out Mormon everywhere in the speech and replace it with Quaker.

I searched for answers to life's meaning and, though I was raised a Presbyterian, I converted to Judaism around 1983.

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.

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

In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.

You know. I don't think I'm gonna be Jewish for very long.

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.

When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me on an altar call. I wept that evening and realized how numb I had become with God and how He was calling to me for restoration. I received that blessing and went on to raising my three children in a Lutheran Church in the Bay Area as a member of Journey.

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.

But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.

I'm Presbyterian. I mean Seven Day Adventists I don't know about, I just don't know about.

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.

A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

Some days I feel like I'm an atheist. Most days, I feel like an agnostic. On a very rare day, I feel like I'm a believer in something.

Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.

I really believe that God and religion is two different things.

I'm spiritual. I'm religious. I'm a strong Christian and I'm a Catholic but I go to a Presbyterian Church. Occasionally I go to the Catholic church too. I take communion. I haven't transferred my membership or anything.