Faith Acceptance Quotes

As a young kid, I had a great background. My grandfather was a minister; I have two uncles that were ministers, and so I had that spiritual background. I accepted Christ early as a kid.

We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of God's presence and if Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, or agnostics become for this better men - simply better - we will be satisfied. It matters to the individual what church he belongs to. If that individual thinks and believes that this is the only way to God for her or him, this is the way God comes into their life - his life. If he does not know any other way and if he has no doubt so that he does not need to search then this is his way to salvation.

I don't care whether you're Baptist, Buddhist, Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, Muslim, or no religion at all. Jesus Christ still loves you. You still matter to God.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible

I respect and believe in all religions.

I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.

I definitely think religion is responsible for a lot of the evils of the world. I mean that's not really in debate. But at the same time, I think whatever gets you through the day, whatever helps you make sense of life I'm not gonna begrudge my grandmother with her rosary beads. It works for them. And at the end of the day, I don't claim to know the answer to anything.

I'm a Christian, but I've coached and played with Muslims and all kind of different religions.

Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another . . . It's all praise, and it's all right.

As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life.

Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.

There's only one thing to do with God's offer of the gift of salvation: Say "thank you" and embrace it.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

I am a believer of all religions. I will happily visit a temple, mosque, church. I do not differentiate between religions.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.

Just what is meant by 'your word?' It means your conscious intention, your conscious direction, your conscious faith and acceptance that, because of what you are doing, the Power of Spirit will flow through your word in the direction you give It.

It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.

If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are. ... What God is in your mind you must accept.

The church should be the safest place on the planet to talk about anything, including same-sex attraction.

What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.

Christ died for me and you, and we embrace that or we don't.

Respecting religions is not simply a question of universal tolerance; it is a question of believing that all religions are true.

Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.