Deepak Chopra Quotes

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

I liked going to Catholic school.

Is there any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything possible is done to guarantee that the youth of every nation will grow up absolutely without moral and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an interior life, or of that spirituality, charity and faith which alone can safeguard the treaties and agreements made by governments?

The child … must not learn religion before he knows morality

I have a great affiliation with the Catholic community having studied at convent schools.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Muslims are bound to know all the tenets of their religion, to discuss them and to regulate their lives accordingly. Therefore, a purely secular education without religious instructions would be like a body without soul.

I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says.

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

The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people - that the church succeed - because it will be good for society.

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.

But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.

I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.

I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of my childhood. I'll probably spend most of my life working through that.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.