Matisyahu Quotes

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

My hope is that 'Beyond the Heavens' will encourage people to explore faith, open their mind and go beyond what they think they know. That is what my mother encouraged me to do. I hope to encourage others to do the same through this story.

'Rust' really started with the passing of my dad, and me really looking back inward to my self about where I stand with all things on a faith/religious/spiritual level. And it's really put me on this interesting road and very educational, I might add, road back to understanding the role of faith in God and Christ in my life.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it; it was a very spiritual time for me.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.

There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

What's positive is moving from a place of growing in faith to really feeling more grounded in faith, to understand that faith is hard, that I'll stumble, that I'll make mistakes, that I'll sin. But, that's part of being on a faith path; it's part of being a human being.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.