Octavia E. Butler Quotes

I grew up with the Bible education, and my values come from there.

I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

I'm a good Catholic boy.

I am a very committed Christian. I think my values and everything I do is driven by that.

Being a Catholic is the most important aspect of my life.

My parents were Christian.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that's very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.

I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian.

Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career.

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are these men who just dictate that this is how you have to live your life or you are going to burn in hell.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

I believe in the Bible, and I believe in Jesus. It's a big part of my life.

I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.

I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't.

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.

I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.

I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy. But less and less young people are religious. The thing is, I see so many positive things about religion, so I'm happy to talk about it.