Matisyahu Quotes

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

I believe in God, but I wasn't living my life for God.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

I believe that gospel is more than just a sound, it's a way of life. I don't really have any shame to talk about spirituality in my music. A lot of your favorite soul songs started out in gospel.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.

I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.

People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken.

The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.

I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious.

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

I am just trying to get biblically stronger.

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which is a series of propositions. But it is still a mistake to suppose that it is assent to the propositions that makes you a believer. It is the feelings that are primary.

A lot of people who are religious, I think they get lost. They go to church just to go to church.