Elayne Boosler Quotes

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.

I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.

To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.

I was always religious. I was baptized as a Catholic. I got my daughter baptized as a Catholic.

I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

It really wasn't until I was 15 or 16 years old that I realized that the church was always there; it was always a part of what we were doing, even if it wasn't at the center of everything we did.

Religion features more now in my life than it did when I was a kid - my dad rejected the Catholic church as a young man. I had no religious upbringing, but certainly, Dad was a kind of secular humanist. I don't know if he was an atheist or agnostic. I regret I didn't talk to him about it.

I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.

I grew up in church. I don't know anything different.

You should always take what I say about religion with a grain of salt, because the 7 deadly sins are more like my seven daily activities. I try to check them all off at least once a day. All of them except gluttony; my trainer keeps that under control.

I grew up in the Episcopal Church, went to private school in that church, went to chapel every day.

I knew all the right Bible answers and the Sunday school answers.

My mother was sort of mildly religious, but the rest of us, you know, we didn't really have it forced on us.

I knew religion from an early age.

I'm Jewish, not Catholic, but I'm a spiritual person.

My beliefs and my faith are part of who I am, and I'm so grateful that I had the foundation laid early on. My mom took me to church from my earliest memories, so I'm grateful to have had that foundation laid early, and it's just part of who I am.

I was raised going to church every Sunday.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy.

I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences.

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.

There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.