Quotes About Religion

Yes I did study to be a preacher, but I didn't finish.

My dad was a preacher.

I'm little. I'm pale. I'm not strong. But bad things are scared of me. I think it's because my dad was a preacher growing up, and I was raised in the Church of Christ.

My granddad and great granddad were Baptist preachers from Western Kentucky.

The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction.

My dad was a Buddhist when I was young, so when I was begging to become a Catholic, he was saying no and imparting Buddhist precepts.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

Every so often, progress on race and religion occur precisely because an issue surfaces.

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.

It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.

In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.

If a film promotes communal harmony, which for me is beyond religion, I am happy to work on it because the film's premise is in line with my beliefs.

All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises.

My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.

Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.

I'm a Presbyterian minister's daughter.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

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

I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

My father was Presbyterian.

Hopefully the presence in Congress of an American who happens to be Hindu will increase America's understanding of India as well as India's understanding of America.

It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.