Stone Gossard Quotes

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

I speak to God every day.

Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.

I listen and talk to God daily.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

Music is a religion to me and my friends.

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

I am passionate about God, about Jesus, and what His influences do to me.

One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

I love God, and I'm a follower.

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.