Benjamin Clementine Quotes

I also work with the spirituality of people.

I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.

Religion to me really means ethical systems.

I'm a true believer that God puts us in situations to help us ultimately get to where we need to be.

I think religion is a gateway for spiritual awakening.

Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

I've been able to stay good because of my family and keeping God first. If you don't have God in your life, how are you going to navigate through this world?

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

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.

'Rust' really started with the passing of my dad, and me really looking back inward to my self about where I stand with all things on a faith/religious/spiritual level. And it's really put me on this interesting road and very educational, I might add, road back to understanding the role of faith in God and Christ in my life.

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

I really believe that God puts things in front of you for a reason, even if you don't always appreciate it in the moment.

I'd rather talk to people about their personal spiritual practices or what they believe love is. I'm born to do that. Could I enter into the political realm and dive into that? Sure, but I don't think I would want to do that.

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

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

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.

When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.