Michael Stuhlbarg Quotes

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.

I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.

God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

I have no doubt, if people are really seeking the big questions, it will lead them to the Lord.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.

I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.

Families need a spiritual bond with one another and with God. God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

I just live my life. I go where I feel God is calling me.

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.

The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.