John Jay Chapman Quotes

A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.

I believe in my job and I believe in my players.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right.

You got your God and so do I.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may.

RELIGION is one's opinion and belief in some ethical truth. To be a Christian is to have the religion of Christ, and so to be a believer of Mohammed is to be a Mohammedan but there are so many religions that every man seems to be a religion unto himself. No two persons think alike, even if they outwardly profess the same faith, so we have as many religions in Christianity as we have believers.

Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.

In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no actual reasons for believing it.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, 'I can't prove a thing, but there's something about his eyes and his voice. There's something about the way he carries his head, his hands, the way he carries his cross-the way he carries me.'

My faith is very personal. It's not something that I want to project on other people.

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

Each child in each generation chooses faith or disbelief. Faith is not an inheritance; it is a choice.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist all week and then on Sunday get down on his knees and pray to God. Frankly I've never been able to understand it because you would need two totally different compartments in your brain, one that deals with religion and the other with everything else.

The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.

Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.

But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.

Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.