David Sheff Quotes

I can't believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.

Twelve-step promotes spirituality, not religion. It gives a practical, day-to-day spirituality that tells me what I can and cannot control. There is room to be imperfect and to be someone who struggles to find God.

I believe in a higher force that is within me.

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.

I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

I pray in my own way, not regularly, and I wouldn't say structured prayers. What I'm praying to I'm not sure. I'd be a firm agnostic.

In the recovery world, it's a higher power that helps you. You have to turn your life over to something greater. Anytime I tried to control my life, I had screwed it up.

I've never been much to believe that my Creator will judge me or anyone at their final days. I don't really know if I believe in going to Heaven or Hell.

I'm not religious, but I feel like there has to be a higher power up there.

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn't go back.

I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.

We need to do what we can do and let God do what we cannot.

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof of anything I'm asked to believe.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.