Adam Hamilton Quotes

I am a follower of Jesus Christ. The Bible is my primary way of knowing Him and what it means to follow Him. And I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

I'd make a bad preacher.

I was born into a family of preachers.

I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.

I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

Christianity is the most materialistic of all great religions.

The moment religion organizes into a specific creed it becomes a political force. From Moses down to Brigham Young, every creed-founder has been a Statebuilder.

Church affiliation, protestant, endorsed by Tom and Joe

The public forum is the place for religious discussion, not religious practices.

I'm not defining Christians as Jews or Jews as Christians or zebras as elephants.

If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not why people come to church. They want to hear the word of God being proclaimed, not the word of Robert Jeffress.

I'm a classic Church of England member, but part of its strength is the fact that it doesn't ask us to sign up to too much of a canon... but I've always found the teachings of Jesus and the Bible quite useful as a sort of handy guide.

Had I been more religious in my youth, I might have become a pastor, for it was the pastoral role I'd sought.

The temptation is for us to share our own opinions, our own thoughts and to speak from the whole realm of possibility. We can't do that as pastors. We need to have a strong voice of conviction, and the way we can do that is through Scripture.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

I love the Bible.

One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.

I was born and raised Catholic.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

I'm really passionate about God and religion, and I thought maybe I'm supposed to be a pastor.