John Tillotson Quotes

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that you've grasped the truth.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

I can see the use and value of religion, just as I can see the use of mud wrestling, yoga, astronomy and sadomasochism. but I reject the idea that you can't be a deep human being without it or any of them.

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.

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.

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

There are some people that look at faith as a part of their life, and there are those like me that look at faith as the essence of their life. I look at all things through my faith.

I've always been a religious person.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

Give us a religion that will help us to live—we can die without assistance.

My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.

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

My religion means so much to me and to my career. It helps me so much.

I did study religion at Northwestern, and it was a very interesting time for me because I think it was the beginning of my personal journey in this understanding of the purpose that religion serves in our culture and in our individual lives. It serves to ground us and be our moral compass.

For me, my faith is the most important thing in my life.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.