Feisal Abdul Rauf Quotes

I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so I was exposed to church a bit.

It really wasn't until I was 15 or 16 years old that I realized that the church was always there; it was always a part of what we were doing, even if it wasn't at the center of everything we did.

My mother was sort of mildly religious, but the rest of us, you know, we didn't really have it forced on us.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I'm not a member of any faith community, and I think faith is a deeply personal issue that individuals should deal with in their private lives.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.

Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.

I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews.

I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you cannot stay there: you have to take a more objective view, too.

I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.

I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.