Matisyahu Quotes

I'm kind of kooky, but do I look like a religious nut?

Much prayer, but no piety.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

I did some acting in college. But then everything stopped when I was a junior, in the fall of 2001, when I started becoming religious. Once I became a full-on Hasidic, I stopped everything. I stopped music. I stopped acting.

I am spiritual but not massively religious, and I don't go to church. If someone said 'What religion are you?' I would say 'Christian.' But I don't practice.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.

Probably the label 'Jesus freak' is fine with me. Because I know who I am.

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

I may be a good Catholic, a bad Catholic or a so-so Catholic, but that's who I am.

I'm fascinated by Buddhism. I adore Buddhism, and I read about it all the time, but I haven't formally become a Buddhist, although I don't really know why I haven't. I guess I feel I don't need to.

I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.

I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.

It's impossible to see the face of Jesus without seeking that face in some concentrated way, in the practice of the faith, through prayer and action.

I don't think of myself as a spiritual person.

If anything, I label myself as sort of Buddhist. My wife Jane is Buddhist.

I admire those that keep Shabbat every week and do not allow anything to interfere with it. It is such a beautiful way to stay connected to friends and family and force yourself to slow down.

I thought you had to be humble to become a saint, but a priest told me it takes all kinds to make it to heaven.

I'm not a practicing kabbalist. I'm not a spiritual master. I'm not a rabbi. I don't - but it's part of who I am.

In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.

We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with us. We must remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ in this passage: ‘The gate is narrow’. Repentance, and faith in Christ, and holiness of life, have never been fashionable. The true flock of Christ has always been small. It must not move us to find that we are reckoned singular, and peculiar, and bigoted, and narrow minded. This is the ‘narrow way’. Surely it is better to enter into eternal life with a few, than to go to ‘destruction’ with a great company

I have been to non-denominational churches like National Community Church in Washington D.C., but I've also gone to Lake Placid Baptist and a slew of other churches. I got baptized with my fiancé (Nic Taylor) this last year at Saranac Lake Baptist Church (in New York), so maybe that makes us Baptist. But for me, it's really been about my relationship with Christ and not so much about a denomination or a label.