Anna Diop Quotes

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.

When you are in church, it's always good to carry a pen and notepad to jot down the scripture text, reference scriptures, and sermon notes. When you come prepared with notepad and pen, you are able to feed off the scriptures from the sermon throughout the week, while asking God to open up your understanding for a deeper illumination of the word.

The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.

I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and assume that by understanding the Scriptures better, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the right stories, the right teachings.

I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.

I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.

By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

I went to Catholic school growing up. I can barely remember any prayers or anything!

Sunday school don't make you cool forever.

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.

I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

It is of immense importance for the understanding of the word of God, to read it in course, so that we may read every day a portion of the Old and a portion of the New Testament, going on where we previously left off.

I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.

I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth

I was the worst teacher you have ever imagined - not that we did not have fun. We had a ton of fun. We just did not learn any scripture. I would think all week long what could I talk about on Sunday, and then I would scramble on Saturday to find some kind of scripture to go with it. This was my teaching.

Religion was a part of our home life when I was growing up. I attended Catholic school. It was a good education - for the spiritual end, as well as for its discipline.

I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

I grew up with a very religious background.

My dad was a Buddhist when I was young, so when I was begging to become a Catholic, he was saying no and imparting Buddhist precepts.

I grew up in the Mormon Church and I have a very strange relationship with that.

I grew up in a household that spent most of my childhood on a religious pilgrimage through American Christianity.