Quotes About Faith

I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.

Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.

You can't control the talents He gives you, no doubt about that. But you can control the effort you put forth with those talents.

The reason I still go play the organ at church every Sunday and dedicate my talents to God first is because I feel like that's the reason why I'm who I am today.

I would like to think all our gifts and talents and abilities come from God.

I'm not a religious person, so I just hold on to my self-belief and the belief in my players' talents.

I use CrossFit to glorify God with the talents he's given.

God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.

I really feel like sometimes I'll write these songs, and I'll just think, 'You know that couldn't have come from me alone.' I believe that God inspires us. I believe that He gives us gifts and talents, and it's up to us to develop them and choose what we do with them.

I believe all of my talents come from the Lord. All of my talents are God-given - that's how I was able to write music without any professional musical training.

There's that saying: 'God gave you talent, and if you don't use it He'll take it away from you.' And I always said, 'I don't want God to come down and take my talents away.' So, by using all these talents and being successful in all of them, I've always got something to fall back on.

I have no talents. But I do have hope. And wonder. And love. Maybe those are talents?

Germany, when you're a young player, is the best. There are lots of young talents here, and people have faith in them.

One thing faith always did for me is it gave me perspective that, yeah, I was to maximize my gift and talents in the area of football, but it was always a means to glorify God and represent God.

God has given us these talents and we want to pass on our best.

The CrossFit games, the four-time Fittest Man on Earth isn't about me. It's about Him and the talents that I've been given. It's my way to glorify Him through what I do.

I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.

I firmly believe in real-life fairy tales.

People will politicize religion; we see it in every faith, in every religion. We see it with Pat Robertson, in my opinion, and we see it with the Taliban.

I talk to Allah, I pray to him.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.