Bill Klem Quotes

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

I try to be passionate about every aspect of my life, how I love my wife, how I serve my wife, how I serve God. In the same way, I try to be passionate about football. I try to serve my coaches with passion. I try to serve my teammates with passion. I try to serve God, through football, with passion.

The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?

Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

It's pretty easy for me because I have a wonderful wife. We put God first and it takes a lot of hard work.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

Though we may not necessarily forfeit our lives in service to our God, we can certainly demonstrate our love for Him by how well we serve Him.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Not merely for country, not merely for humanity, not only for civilization, but for the religion of our Lord itself

Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.

In some very real way, rock 'n' roll is like a religion to me.

I just continue to fall in love with the game.

My wife and I love children. We have five of our own. I would ask that anyone who looks up to me would instead look up to God. I am nothing without Him. Everything I do in life and in baseball is to glorify Him.

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

I love God, and I'm a follower.

Baseball's my life.