Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

I wasn't really raised in a religious family.

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

Theology is unnecessary.

Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I define it. Right? If he wants to know what a chair is, I can point to the chair. If he wants to know what religion is, I can't point to anything in particular. The same is true of the state.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

I've always been a religious guy, but not overly religious. I've always believed in God and Jesus. I pray.

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

I'm against organised religion of any kind.

We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school.

I'm very religious.

God save us from religion.

Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

Christianity is the most materialistic of all great religions.

The moment religion organizes into a specific creed it becomes a political force. From Moses down to Brigham Young, every creed-founder has been a Statebuilder.

The Church should not be confused with religion.

Mark this, you that despise and oppose the Message of the Lord God that he sends by Women; What had become of the Redemption of the whole Body of Mankind, if they had not cause to believe the Message that the Lord Jesus sent by these Women