Faith Influence Quotes

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle might light a thousand, so the light here [in Plymouth Colony] kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of your character. Nevermind what you believe, it's just who you are.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

I grew up in the church.

Hey, I was raised in the church.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I would be a pastor.

Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.

I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.

My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.

Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God's on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.

I have been a Christian all my life, but it's impossible to be so deeply involved in these stories without it making you think again, and without it making you consciously aware of the people involved.

Like the graduates of some notorious boot camp, my brothers and sisters and I look back with a sort of perverse glee at the rigors of our Catholicism. My oldest sister, Mary, was so convinced of the church's omnipotence that when she walked into a Protestant church with some high-school friends, she was sure its walls would crash down on her head.

And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people.

At the end of the day we're all spirits having a physical experience. That really comes from my relationship with Islam because it just makes me really conscious of my action.

Through the gospel of Jesus Christ, I am motivated to be a better person.

I grew up in church. I don't know anything different.

I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music of Bach or the novels of Dostoevsky. So in the evenings, when the other boys went to play basketball or chase girls - I had no chance in either - I found my comfort in Jesus.

If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.

Young men and women, your education is ever important - to us, to you, and to God.

Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.

Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

… religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.