Faith and Identity Quotes

I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really.

I was a runner who happened to be a Christian. I needed to become a Christian who happened to be a runner.

I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.

I can't say enough, how important my faith is to how I play the game and who I am.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me. I couldn't take my identity from this sport.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.

I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the less of you I can see, the closer you must be to God.

Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?

The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.