Been Quote by Elaine Pagels

I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.

— Charles H. Townes

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort…

— Moby

For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that…

— Donald Miller

As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it…

— Bruce Catton

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

— Ioan Gruffudd

I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too.…

— John Kennedy Toole

I grew up with a religious background.

— Alex Caruso

I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.

— D. B. Sweeney

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

— Jim Butcher

The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was rebelling against…

— Sufjan Stevens

I grew up very religious.

— Bobby Berk