Jud Wilhite Quotes

Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.

To God, our journey is JUST as important as our destination!

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

Islam is about finding your own space.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

The teenage years are the years to examine faith - the need to be independent and the need to be anchored. Who made all this? And what do I have to do with it?

The momentum of my creative life and intellectual growth is still the momentum of breaking out of fundamentalism. Because of that, I'm very grateful for it. But I'm also grateful that at the center of it was something that I still believe to be true - those fundamentals of faith.

I pursue God on a daily basis, I'm not stepping into oblivion.

I don't pass myself off as a Bible scholar or a pastor or someone who knows all the biblical facts cover-to-cover. I'm just a guy whose life was changed by it. And that's about the extent of it. So I'm not easily offended when people struggle about where they're at with their faith at all.

The greatest adventure in life - knowing God - begins at the Cross of Christ and ends with a "Hallelujah!"

The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.

The goal of life is god realisation.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.

We must realize that a vast majority of believers are still searching and will continue to search for the being who is the "source of human good." Those who seek with clear heads and sincere hearts will in some measure find. Of course the true seeker will realize that there is no one way to find God. To be sure, there are many possible ways of finding God.

My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.

There is a question whether faith can or is supposed to be emotionally satisfying. I must say that the thought of everyone lolling about in an emotionally satisfying faith is repugnant to me. I believe that we are ultimately directed Godward but that this journey is often impeded by emotion

Explore daily the will of God.

I don't think God's through with me.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

I think that we all at some point are in search of something - a higher power, whatever you want to call it, the meaning of life. I know I was, especially at even my son's age in my 20s, and dabbling in Eastern philosophies and yoga and Buddhism and Christianity and Islam. I kind of touched them all, you know, just trying to figure out the meaning of life or if nothing else, figure myself out.

I believe God lets us go through all of what we go through for a reason and it's all part of a continued learning curve and journey of revelation and knowledge.