Faith Practices Quotes

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

Baptists don’t spend their time thinking about reality.

I lead a multi-faith life.

Baptism pertains to the Church alone.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.

What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.

If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays.

I always went to Sunday school, sang in the choir.

Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.

Christians get trees. Jews get bushes. To stay in good standing with the Tribe, you've got to refer to a Christmas tree as a Hanukkah bush.

I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don't turn on my computer for 24 hours.

All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.

'Tis a strange thing, … that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants to go out there and worship the bark on a tree.

The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.

Amen" Lula said and she made the sign of the cross. "I thought you were Baptist." "Yeah, but we don't got any hand signals for an occasion like this.

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.