Scott Stapp Quotes

At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.

I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god - no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists.

If you love god, burn a church.

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

I think, if you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

I was raised Catholic... I fell in love with certain ideals.

My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

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

Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

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.

To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians.

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.