Religious Dedication Quotes

I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

Jesus was lost in his love for God.

You can't just tip your hat to Jesus; you must bow your knee.

I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.

I gave my life to the Lord at 12. I was baptized at 12.

Those who are the most devout, outstanding Unification Church members are they the most beautiful people externally or just so-so? Very often, those who have the features of an Idaho potato are the most loyal members of the Unification Church.

I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry. She wanted to be a nun. She hoped I would be a priest and saved to give me an education while my friends plaited rope and trailed after the plough. I can't be a priest because although my heart is as loud as hers I can pretend no answering riot. I have shouted to God and the Virgin, but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a god can meet passion with passion? She says he can. Then he should.

Love the church because Jesus loves it.

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

I love the church, the church that God is establishing, that Jesus died for, so I'll never have any negative things to say about His church.

Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted

I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on.

I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.

I'm very, very serious about my Catholicism and Hillary Clinton views that as a real asset. And we've talked about our faith lives, as she asked me to be on the ticket with her.

Every time you walk a mile to church and carry a Bible with you, you preach a sermon a mile long.

It's really important to me to go to church, which is sometimes tough when I get back from road trips late on Saturday night, but I try to make it a priority to go every week.

Regardless of what happens, I still honor my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, because at the end of the day, that's what's important, win or lose. ... We need to get back to one nation under God, and be role models for kids.

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Normally, we think of the religious as people who care more, not less than the rest of us. This is not true, not exactly. The truly religious care more deeply about fewer things and do't give a hoot about the rest.