Padma Lakshmi Quotes

I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.

I thought everybody would embrace and understand my reasons for becoming Muslim.

I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.

Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.

Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up.

I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart's been changed.

Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.

I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.

I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

I searched for answers to life's meaning and, though I was raised a Presbyterian, I converted to Judaism around 1983.

I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.

Most people spend their life trying to get away from Catholicism. Amazingly, I chose it.

I was a convert to Catholicism, and converts are much more devout.

Mr. Browborough, whose life had not been passed in any strict obedience to the Ten Commandments, and whose religious observances had not hitherto interfered with either the pleasures or the duties of his life, repeated at every meeting which he attended, and almost to every elector whom he canvassed, the great Shibboleth which he had now adopted "The prosperity of England depends on the Church of her people.

You know. I don't think I'm gonna be Jewish for very long.

The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"

People should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion. Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

The overwhelming joy of conversion or a new calling is often followed by feelings of being overwhelmed with duties and doctrines. The first joyous feelings are real and give one much-needed initial momentum. But the genuine exhilaration is soon followed by the need to perspire and to pedal.

My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism.

So often people will say that I converted to the Catholic religion. This is false. Although I was raised as a Protestant, I was never baptized and had never been a member of any church. I joined the Roman Catholic Church after I had written my Mass To Hope!During the night I dreamt the entire Lord's Prayer with chorus and orchestra. I jumped out of bed and wrote down what I had heard as accurately as I could remember. Because of this event I decided that I might as well join the Catholic Church because someone somewhere was pulling me toward that end.

I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did know what they were, and attached much importance to it, was entirely novel to me, but I soon fell into their ways and found it easy to go forward on their road, the more so because the other roads became closed to me.

But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.

Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ.