Mike Rowe Quotes

I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.

I grew up in the Mormon Church and I have a very strange relationship with that.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

Hey, I was raised in the church.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

I was raised in church, and we let our kids know who Jesus is.

My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.

So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal conviction; I made a personal decision when I was very young. I enjoy going to church without my parents. On Sunday mornings, I want to go. Bible studies on Wednesdays... I have a relationship - not just through my parents.

I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it. I was going to be a priest; I'm proud of it. And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah, I grew up in the church and went to church, but I knew nothing about the Lord. I had no idea what it meant about walking in faith.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

I grew up in the church.

My mother was sort of mildly religious, but the rest of us, you know, we didn't really have it forced on us.

I got baptized in June of 2001, I think. But I always went to church camp, went to church every Sunday, went to Bible class.

We live in the Bible Belt. I was born and raised in church. That's something that was really, really important to me, to build that foundation with our kids so they at least went to church.

I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.

I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.

I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge.

I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.