It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionist or non-Zionist, Ashkenazi or Sephardic - all these will not exist without Israel.
But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.
Every person is born from an natural disposition, and the mother and father will make him into a Christian. So, I do believe that we are all born as Muslims, and, as we mature, we make decisions.
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.
People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church.
To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
Pakistan is not the torch-bearer of Islam, and if I change my country, it doesn't mean that I have to change my religion.
Every convert is a son or daughter of God.
Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.
There's this idea that when you say you're Muslim, that you're either all in or you're trying to escape it. I love the idea of gradations and levels, just like everybody else has.
No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.
There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.
I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
The fact that I am not Jewish by religion does not prevent me from connecting to the Jewish nation's spirituality.
It is important to be in the 'we' of the Church, in the 'we' of the life of the Liturgy.
If you are a Christian, your search for approval should be over.
I am keen on a spiritual life and have struggled to find a place for my heart in a religious community.
For the government to sponsor the symbols of one particular religion is to derogate the belongingness of citizens of other faiths or no faith. Further, to take the most sacred symbols of one religious group and desacralize them as just one in a row of secular folk symbols like Santa Claus and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a great loss to the religious groups that view these symbols as sacred.
I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
We joined a Conservative synagogue. I began learning through engagement, rote and reading. Suddenly, I belonged... well, to the extent that a novelist can ever feel she is part of a group; we may be part of a minyan, but we're not fully merged into the community.
