Ari Graynor Quotes

I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.

My family is very religious.

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

I love religions and find them fascinating, and I find Judaism very beautiful. It's enriched my life enormously.

I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core beliefs, which are essentially freedom and justice. But the supernatural aspects of religion were never important to me.

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

My father was very outwardly religious.

The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too.

I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.

We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study …. Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

Religion is such a path with people.

I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.

I'm not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It's part of our family history.

Mom was always very, very religious.

I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.