John Clayton Quotes

I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.

I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.

I'm a Christian now. The things that drove me crazy growing up was how everyone works at fault-finding with different religions. The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snow boarding and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.