Lee Haney Quotes

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to be a minister. So I was going down that path, and then I saw the Tonys.

The church has given me balance.

My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.

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

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

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.

My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

I am a vicar's daughter and still a practising member of the Church of England.

I was born into a family of preachers.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask.

Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church.

All politics are local, and so in church.

One man's cult is another man's religion.

A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.