Faith Connection Quotes

God is Spirit - without the Holy Spirit you cannot relate to Him.

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery.

I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky.

I believe all of my talents come from the Lord. All of my talents are God-given - that's how I was able to write music without any professional musical training.

For you to have any relationship with God, it must be through His Word by His Spirit.

I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.

I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my older brothers. I mean, there wouldn't be Christianity without the Jewish religion. There is a direct connection between the two of them.

Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the first page, it said that the prayer book was in thanks to the sponsorship of this family in a temple in Kansas City. For me, it was a moment when I really kind of connected in a real serious way with my personal identity as a Jew.

Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water

Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

I'm an old Coltrane disciple just like I'm a Christian.

We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.

My church is fifty percent millennials. There's a connectivity between millennials and I.

What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in.

Well, being from Mississippi, the church house is kind of the common denominator. It was for me growing up. Like so many public performers, that was the first place I was ever invited to sing.

I don't care if you're Muslim or Christian or Buddhist or whatever your religion is, when you listen to a spiritual song and you really open your heart, you can feel it. You can feel the message of it. Just a simple story.