Steve-O Quotes

In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.

From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain the thought of not trying to be in contact with Him.

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

Every worldview I chose, it seemed, edged me toward belief.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

I asked myself, 'What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what's right?' I just made a decision. I said, 'It's time to grow up. It's time to start living for the Lord, do things the right way.' I accepted the Lord, and it changed my life.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

My driving force is spirituality.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

Subconsciously, Islam took over me, so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.

Eventually, I joined a church. I didn't go there to find a boyfriend; I truly wasn't looking for anyone other than the person I wanted to be.

Sometimes I go back and listen to the very first day I went to church. I listen to that sermon all the time, because that was the sermon that was life changing for me.

I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\