KaDee Strickland Quotes

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

I never went to church. The priests couldn't scare me with all that crap about hell, but somehow I knew, inside of me somehow, I knew that I'd pay for it.

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very faithful. I believe in God, in Jesus Christ.

Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles.

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

From a young age, I saw and placed importance on spirituality within religion.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

I'm a good Catholic boy.

Christianity is the most materialistic of all great religions.

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.

What does Christianity mean today. Our religion is National Socialism.