Toyah Willcox Quotes

I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board.

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

I grew up in a very Catholic household. We were pretty conservative.

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.

I was raised Jehovah's Witness. I was in Bible school at five or six years old, but I wouldn't say that we were a religious family.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

I myself am not religious, but yes, I certainly grew up in a very Catholic environment.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

I'm not really into religion.

I was raised Catholic and I went to church until I was 16. I went through a phase when I was 15 of being quite fanatically Catholic. I was going to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying, all that stuff. But when I started scrutinizing it, it just fell apart so quickly.

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

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

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.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.