David Green Quotes

My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their religion. I've watched the holiest of people walk past somebody in need or treat their staff mean. To me, the beauty of faith is only seen when people live it consistently or struggle to do so.

I've never been a Sunday-only kind of Christian.

I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I'm first to say that I talk a good game, but I don't know how good I am about it in practice.

I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. As far as possible I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that he has spared me the indignity of being your representative.

I know when you do things systematically, non-stop, and repetition, that's how you make things happen in your life. It's the same thing in faith.

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

Went to church and fasted all day.

The founder of Crunk Feminists is a Christian. If you claim to be a Christian, but then you attack somebody for saying you should approach a problem with love, you're not being a true Christian.

Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

Without fail, the days that I start off the right way with a little devotional time and putting God first. Those days are really good days.

If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Gandhi said 'One cannot do right in one area of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in another; Life is one indivisible whole.' This point of wisdom is profound. A commitment to excellence is not just reserved for a few select areas of your life - it must be reflected in everything you do. Your diet must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your physique must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your personal habits must reflect your commitment to excellence and your thoughts must reflect a commitment to excellence.

Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.

Integrity is keeping my commitments even if the circumstances when I made those commitments have changed.

My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God... I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.