Mark Wahlberg Quotes

Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.

I try to stay centered in my faith and my family and the close people around me.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

I talk every day about doing the right thing.

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.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

My family is very religious.

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

There is nothing specific we have to believe in order to have moral and spiritual lives.

Religion to me really means ethical systems.

My philosophy is different than most of the people up here. I think if you do the right thing and you lose, you still did the right thing. I think if you do less than the right thing and win, it’s morally reprehensible.

If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, forgiveness.' That's the greatest gift that I've been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do.

I believe in God. I believe in doing the right thing. I believe in helping people if I can.

Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?