Eddie Guerrero Quotes

God is my best friend. I talk to God every day. And no one can tell me how to talk to God - not no imam, not no priest, not no rabbi, no pastor.

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.

The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all religions. But in terms of it being a concretized, organized part of my life, it's not.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

I believe in God, but I'm not dominated by it.

I'm not a religious person. I have a one-on-one relationship with God, but I don't go to church like I should.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

I respect religion in general. I respect a lot, but I don't follow any religion. You know, I just follow my personal connection with God. For me, God is inside my heart and is inside everyone's heart.

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

I'm not really into religion, OK. I saw a lot of things I did not like when I got into organized religion. I think a lot of people abuse it, I think a lot of people use it, I think a lot of people make it what they want. And me, my faith and my relationship with God is very personal. And it's not anybody's damn business how we talk.

The men of moral and religious earnestness were bent on some measure of fresh reform. A spirit was abroad which could not be put down, and which would not be quiet. The old idea of an authoritative Church was outgrown, and yet no religious system had come in its place which provided for a free personal approach to God Himself.

What I have is a personal relationship with God.

The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving.