Quotes About Religion

When I did 'The Passion,' nobody believed in the movie. Everybody was telling me, 'You shouldn't do this movie... But I wanted to play Mary Magdalene. I thought that I could do something strong and deep with this character.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

That materialistic life, that's not my god.

I was a young, messed-up kid who didn't mature until he became a Christian. That was in 2008 - the rest of my life, I'd been living a lie.

No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is, 'Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God.' Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.

I know my responsibilities. They are to my religion, my parents, my wife, my family and my community.

The way I see life, there is only one God, and all the rest are human.

No man has ceased to believe in God before having decided that he should not exist; no book would produce atheism, and no book can restore faith.

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

The stuff that's made up about Jesus - that you have to go through Jesus to get to God and if you're lucky, after you die, if you've done everything right, the reward is you get to sit on the right hand side of God. All that is made up by men. People made it up.

I was adopted into an extremely right-wing religious family.

I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.

I'm saying my rosary every day.

I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath.

And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.

Nothing is sacred, right?

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

I don't need my president to be my savior - I already have one.

Listen, one doesn't need to be religious (nor a rocket scientist) to see the value of abstinence.

You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up.

I'm into scripture every day.

A lot of times the thoughts of religion are not all bibliocentric, sometimes they're cultural. Then it becomes cultural to say, 'it's wrong to do this and it's wrong to do that.' It becomes a misinterpretation of scripture.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

I went to Seattle U. Nice Jesuit school there.