Andrew Greeley Quotes

My religion lies in my composition.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

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

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

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.

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

I'm a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely upon to express my faith, are those provided by Islam because they make the most sense to me.

Faith is important to me.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

I'm not religious. I'm spiritual. Religious seems too much like a club.

I did study religion at Northwestern, and it was a very interesting time for me because I think it was the beginning of my personal journey in this understanding of the purpose that religion serves in our culture and in our individual lives. It serves to ground us and be our moral compass.

I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.