Tyler Perry Quotes

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

I have begun to realize just how amazing God's plan can be.

My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.

As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God.

It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.

One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day.

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do, the results I want to have with what God's given me, is to help as many people as possible get to heaven.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.

Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.