Art Alexakis Quotes

I have a great faith in God and Jesus.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

I think 'Jesus' is the most offensive word in anyone's life. When we mention Jesus, He is the only one who says 'I am God. I am holy. I am the only way to a truthful life.' No one - not Mohammad, not Buddha, not anyone says that they were holy, not anyone says that they were God, not anyone says that they faced the devil face to face and won.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

I always believed in Jesus and God as a little boy.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do.

This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell.

Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.