Religious Studies Quotes:

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.

- Jeremiah

topic: Baby, Born, Womb, Announcements, Unborn

[My grandmother] was the assistant pastor at Palma Ceia Baptist Church in Hayward - my grandmother, Evie Goines. And so my mother was doing - I remember when my mother graduated from beauty college, so I was about 5, and so I guess she was about 21. And I just remember being there, taking the pictures and seeing her get her diploma and everything. But she was doing hair for many years. during that time, she kind of started to discover or tap into her religious studies. It was around the time I was starting to go through puberty and hitting, like, 12, 13.

- Mahershala Ali

topic: Mother, Religious, College, Religious Studies

It's an ironic thing about being an immigrant kid, growing up - 'cause I grew up in the UK and went to a British boarding school and we would go to chapel every Sunday morning. And we'd actually have religious studies and religious studies means Christian studies where you study the Bible.

- Aasif Mandvi

topic: Christian, Religious, Morning, Kids Growing Up, Ironic Things

Old texts, myths, and religions have always fascinated me, though I prefer learning about them to writing papers and trying to make thoughts and arguments regarding their effect or meaning - this being the essence of my time in religious studies.

- Tom Shields

topic: Religious, Writing, Essence, Religious Studies

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.

- Ryan Lewis

topic: Photography, Religious, Philosophy, Religious Studies

The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation are downright bored, and they're as stuck in what they do as everyone else is.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Religious, People, Bored, Religious Studies

I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.

- Ted Dekker

topic: Religious, Philosophy, Writing, Religious Studies

The object is evident in the name of the discipline. Similarly, theology (theologia) is the study of God. The object of theology is not the church's teaching or the experience of pious souls. It is not a subset of ethics, religious studies, cultural anthropology, or psychology. God is the object of this discipline.

- Michael Horton

topic: Religious, Teaching, Names, Religious Studies

Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth; and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.

- Yann Martel

source: Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.5, Vintage Canada

topic: Beautiful, Religious, Numbers, Miracle Of Life, Religious Studies

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

- Carol P. Christ

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Graduation, Religious Studies, Yale University