James Callis Quotes

My family is very religious.

From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.

We are tapping those people who are unchurched, people who feel they are not religious, those who are spiritual but are not at home with God, those who feel they are not worthy.

I never thought about it, but as an atheist, maybe Nascar is my church?

A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU, and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let the ACLU be hanged"? In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time - calling upon God.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.

Attending church is one thing, belonging is another.

I am passionate about God, about Jesus, and what His influences do to me.

One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

I believe in God and immortality.

When I was young, I was religious.

I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.

I don't claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.

I believe in God. It's a big part of my life. You can bring it up and talk about it without being 'Christian Rocker.'

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

I was always a God guy.

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.

I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships.

I can relate to somebody wanting to have something to believe in.

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.