Martin Sheen Quotes

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are these men who just dictate that this is how you have to live your life or you are going to burn in hell.

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together.

I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we've done or we're about to do. At times like this, it's wise to prayerfully consider whether we're offending God with our actions.

I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Not only should the Indonesian people believe in God, but every Indonesian should believe in his own God.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to tell them what to do.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.