Jermaine Jackson Quotes

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

I thought everybody would embrace and understand my reasons for becoming Muslim.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

I became a Christian because I met God.

My parents reverted to their Catholic faith through the charismatic renewal, so I was raised charismatic.

I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

I cannot express to you how grateful I am that I am a Christian. Before I was a Christian, I went through a time in my life where I just didn't know why I was alive.

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

There is a noble future for Islam as a personal faith, not a political doctrine

The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small part of the human race, & even among Christian nations, what gross errors still exist!

I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.

Would you take anybody's views on Christianity seriously if they hadn't read the New Testament? Of course you wouldn't. So I read the Koran.

I searched for answers to life's meaning and, though I was raised a Presbyterian, I converted to Judaism around 1983.

Over the years, my relationship with God has changed my life for the better - it's grown me up, given me a sense of purpose, and grounded me in my identity.

I want to continue to strive towards deepening my relationship with God and finding peace in whatever trials or circumstances I may be given.

I used to fast during Ramadan because I admired the people fasting around me. What made me convert was that I had that certainty that Islam was for me. I felt this relationship with God, and that enlightened my life. I had that conviction in my heart that that was my religion.

I wasn't raised Christian. I certainly had to seek Him out and find Him, and it's changed my life. I'm so glad I did.