Quotes About Faith

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

The anointing, which is God's power, comes on me... I can actually feel it. And people start getting healed. From the cancer, the pain is gone.

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

I don't believe in heaven, and I don't believe in hell as a place with flames where people are burning and having eternal pain. I don't believe in that at all. I believe in a place I call 'beyond.'

Just having conversations with God, begging God to make the pain go away, and then the pain wouldn't go away. So I'm like 'Who the hell am I talking to? God is not responding.'

It can get discouraging - 'Oh, it didn't work,' or, 'Oh, I lost the baby,' or, 'I can't do this again.' You can. And when you get the kid, you'll be happy that you did. But it's a very painful process for a lot of people. You just have to figure out how it's gonna get done.

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.

If I'm looking at life without a spiritual perspective, it's a lot more painful, a lot more confusing, and there's so much that I don't understand.

My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us.

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.

As a Sikh, I would say that the opening of the Kartarpur corridor is a positive sign for millions, but I am still not very sure of Pakistani designs.

I believe the land of Palestine will be returned to owners of the land with the help of God.

Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.

I'm Muslim. I'm Palestinian. I'm a woman in a hijab.

We have a God who loves us. We are in the palm of his hand. He doesn't leave us, and He doesn't forsake us.

Sometimes a leap of faith doesn't pan out.

I tend to detach myself from movies once I'm done shooting them, because after that, it's in the hands of God. And it doesn't help if I panic.

One thing I'll never do is panic.

'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf. Put it on every shelf. This is one of the all-time great American novels.

Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.