Tony Finau Quotes

I didn't go to church all the time, just 'cause I was an antsy kid.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may have doubts about Christian orthodoxy may continue to go to church. They do so because they assume that a vague god vaguely prayed to is the god that is needed to support family and nation.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

You don't need to go to church to be a Christian. If you go to Taco Bell, that doesn't make you a taco.

Being a Muslim is very important to me, more important than anything, although sometimes travel makes it difficult for me to always pray when I want to.

Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual level.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.

Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.

He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.

I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.

I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a great respect for religion, and the subject has always fascinated me, beyond almost all others (with a few exceptions, like evolution and paleontology).

Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo sapiens became Homo sapiens. Sapiens became a human being, our minds very naturally segue into transcendence.

I miss going to church, but I think the Lord understands.

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

Strange is the man who practices his religion.

When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing.

Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.

We learn about tithing by paying it.

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

It was of tremendous comfort. I always said my prayers at night. My mother taught actually me to say prayers at night but most of it came from the church.

I don't go to church so much, but I do believe in God and I understand the consequences of faith.