Sam Brownback Quotes

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.

The Constitution is man-made, so it is not perfect. It's not the basis of my beliefs. My belief system is based on the Scriptures which come from God.

My faith is my life. It defines me. My faith doesn’t influence my decisions; it drives them.

The question is not whether personal spiritual beliefs shape a politician's values and policies, but what spiritual beliefs mold those values and policies.

I derive a lot of the values that I try to bring into the public sphere from my private faith.

For me, my faith informs my life.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

Faith helps many people make sense of the world around them. Faith gives them a spiritual connection to something larger.

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

I think 'Charming Billy' ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in.

Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.

I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.

I am a spiritualist, a proud wearer of the spiritualist badge.

I am basically a religious man.

The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

I've always been a religious person.