Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

I focused on my career. I grew up super Christian, both my parents are ministers, so I did a purity ceremony when I was a teenager.

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.

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.

I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.

I still follow the lifestyle of the Mormon church. I try to go to church every Sunday even when I'm on tour. It's not only my upbringing, but it helps me stay sane. It helps me remember my purpose and the overall picture of what is important to me and what makes me happy.

I go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were right because they were the ones growing up in righteousness, and their life was supposed to be an example, seen?

My granddad was an elder at our church, so it was a big part of my life growing up.

I belong to a highly religious family. Both my mother and father perform fasting, do shrads and completely believe in Ganpati. This has influenced me and that is why even I am so religious.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even respect, for the contrary is too often the case. Too often, men hold religion as they do property - in their wives' names.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.

You don't have to be peculiar to find God.

I'm very proud of all my children. They all have Christian families; they read the Bible; they pray; the kids go to Sunday school; they know the Ten Commandments by heart. That's my greatest honor, and I couldn't do anything to glorify God that could surpass that. That's very meaningful.