Norman Jewison Quotes

I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.

The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

My family is very religious.

For as long as I can remember, my mother went to church every single Sunday. She was born and raised in Romania as a person with limited means, and faith was something she could rely on - something that was free.

Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections.

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.

Religions get lost as people do.

Christianity is the hallmark of civilization.

Why do people stick with their God? That’s what they have.

If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society.

What's at the heart of my faith is a belief that there's a creator. That we're all children of the same God. And that, fundamentally, the relationship you have with your spouse is important and eternal.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

For me it's always God, family, and then my work.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn't always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did.

We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them.