Miguel McKelvey Quotes

I go to church for the cultural element. It's where you go to see Greek people once a week. It's real important to me, and I hope my children see they're part of something bigger than just this family.

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

I get to do all these really nice, little culty things. It seems to be the world that keeps inviting me back.

Religions die slowly.

I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').

I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.

In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.

Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you.

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world where white working class folks are going to church less and less, they're losing that when they might really need it.

I went to the mosque one day, and it came to me, like, 'This is where I belong.'

Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque.

I never thought about it, but as an atheist, maybe Nascar is my church?

Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.