Jay Parini Quotes

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.

Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.

I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it.

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

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

I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.

I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.

I grew up Seventh Day Adventist.

The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.

I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.

The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.

I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.

Throughout the years I feel if God promotes me to stay alive and have more years to live on Earth, which I pray and I would love to, people are going to see my personality, and they're going to see more of me and be able to understand me more.

Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the logic of infidelity, as soon as I began to think for myself. But that which at first threatened to be the utter shipwreck of faith in God and the Bible was, under God's providence, over-ruled for good, and merely wrecked my confidence in human creed and systems of Bible misinterpretations.

God's highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His

A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness . . . Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full.

I didn't have a rigidly enforced religious parental pressure, but I did have a few years in my mid-teens of turning to religion, and it was very meaningful to me.

I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of drifted away, candidly, in my latter teen years. I consider myself deeply spiritual but not in an institutional, religious kind of a way. In Catholicism, we're surrounded by these images of martyrdom and doing penance and doing some suffering to achieve what you're trying to achieve. And I certainly embedded that in my psyche and I have lived that very effectively.

We must remember there are different seasons in our lives and let God do what He wants to do in each of those seasons.

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.