Andres Serrano Quotes

I am spiritual but not massively religious, and I don't go to church. If someone said 'What religion are you?' I would say 'Christian.' But I don't practice.

I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.

I'm not a Christian for your benefit. I'm a Christian for my benefit, and how I walk my walk is my business, and how you walk your walk is your business.

Just as there are many Jews who keep the Friday ritual in their home despite describing themselves as atheists, I am a 'tribal Christian,' happy to attend church services.

My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means.

People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.

And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.

I am a Christian, but I also don't really see myself as a religious person. I see myself as more of a spiritual person.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.

I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.

I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.

In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.

I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.

I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.

Each of us has the choice to attend the church we want to, or none at all. Separation of church and state allows for religions to have their own set of rules as to whom they will accept and who they won't, and the practices they support and the ones they don't. They will continue to be able to do so.

I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.

My parents are pretty religious, devout, but did they force it on me? No, I don't think so. I still think of myself as a Lutheran, just one who doesn't go to church.

Pop was a devout Roman Catholic; I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm not the village atheist, but I exert my right not to believe, and I doubt I would have been very public about that were he still alive, simply just so as not to hurt his feelings.

Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I've no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people, which is doubtless a relief to anyone who has feared finding me on their doorstep asking if they'd like to know more about Odin.

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.

No human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.