John Tavener Quotes

I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual.

I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.

Our Lord Christ has surnamed Himself Truth, not Custom.

My faith is my life. It defines me. My faith doesn’t influence my decisions; it drives them.

I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There's an awful lot of frailty and doubt about it, which I understand and share, but there are certain things you just have to acknowledge.

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

I have this deep and abiding faith in God. But this does not mean that you have to have a religion or follow somebody.

Spirituality is complicated. I do not belong to any particular religious group, but I have profound respect for people who devote their lives to faith.

I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.

You can't believe how different your life can be until you've immersed yourself in faith or given your life up to Christ or decided you have a higher power you want to follow.

Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church.

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.

Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.

If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person.

Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.

Put God first in everything you do ... Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift ... I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.