Steve Toltz Quotes

There's not a day that goes by that I don't bless myself with holy water and then get in my car and rub the medal of the Virgin Mary that she gave me and say a Hail Mary for my mother. And then I kiss her Mass card that's right there on the dashboard.

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church.

I speak to God every day.

I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.

I listen and talk to God daily.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.

I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion.

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.

I don't even call myself a Christian.

I'm a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make the most sense to me.

I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.

I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.

If a prayer is the way we talk to God, if a million people pray, that's got to be one big message.

We have a priest at Inter Milan and a chapel at the training ground. That is where I was baptised and confirmed into the church.

I don't recite prayers as a blanket rule, but having said that, I do believe that prayers like The Our Father and Hail Mary are powerful prayers.

I was brought up a strict Christian. My father was a lay preacher, my mother a church warden. The rhythm and ritual of the Anglican Church was part of our lives.

Went to church and fasted all day.

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.