Faith Choice Quotes

You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

There is no compulsion in religion.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

In America you have the right to worship any way you choose. That's why virtually every faith and every denomination on Earth has a presence in our land. You have a right to not believe in God at all.

My faith is in God. If it's a little statue of Buddha or whatever works for you, brilliant.

I believe in God. Nobody made me believe; I don't think you can or should try to force someone to believe something. And even though my parents taught me stuff about God and read Bible stories to me from as early as I can remember... it was my choice to become a believer in Him. The way I see it, putting our faith in God is something that each person has to come to on his or her own. It's your own personal relationship with Him; a bond that's as unique as a fingerprint.

So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it.

If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person.

I think this word 'disbelieve' would be the best of all possible worlds if everybody were an atheist or an agnostic or a humanist - his or her own particular brand - but as for compelling people to this, absolutely not.

Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God in Jesus or to continue to let the Bible define God. Our tradition says that Jesus is God. Maybe we should act as if we think he is instead of worshipping a book. Maybe we should be brave enough to admit that we are compelled to either become blinded ideologues or we need to forthrightly pick and choose what we follow in the Bible. Most Christians do that anyway, many just don’t admit it.

I'm not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change - not somebody else.

I am Catholic. But I am opposed to a monopoly when it comes to faith.

The question is not, "Do you want to go to heaven?" The question is, "Do you want God?"

A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.

My father and mother are Muslims. But from the moment I started talking, I decided I was a Christian. They let me.

In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.

Each child in each generation chooses faith or disbelief. Faith is not an inheritance; it is a choice.

I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they became modern-day Catholics or Jews than that they became Muslims.

As we enter this election year, let’s not forget the most important decision anyone can make-choosing Christ.

I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods... I don’t want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was 12, but I didn’t know what I was doing. I’m not a Christian anymore. I know where I’m going and I know the truth and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.

Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.

Earth is the anteroom of Heaven, if we choose to see it so.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.