Jeremy Hardy Quotes

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

My grandmother was a Muslim. My mother is Christian. And I don't know what I am, but I believe in God.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.

I am spiritual but not massively religious, and I don't go to church. If someone said 'What religion are you?' I would say 'Christian.' But I don't practice.

I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.

I don't consider myself any denomination.

In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.

When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they became modern-day Catholics or Jews than that they became Muslims.

When I started law school in 2010, I would have called myself an atheist. When I graduated law school in 2013, I was exploring my faith again. A lot changed in those three years.

Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.

I don't have a preferred religion - I'd have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as I've grown into my own man, I don't attach myself to a religion - 100 per cent, I have faith. Then it's locking into what suits me.

I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.

I went to this Episcopalian school, and one day I came home and asked my mom, 'What religion are we?' She looked at me and said, 'We're artists.'

I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.

American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able to produce an interesting atheist in America.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not Buddhist. They're not anything. We do all the holidays to keep the traditions and the culture going, but I truly don't have a great feeling about any particular organized religion, and I don't think it's right to impose one on my kids.

I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.

I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.