“I grew up a faithful person. I never lost faith. I prayed every day all throughout my life. But at some point in life, my faith became fairly abstract. And I lost this belief that we have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.” PersonsJesusBeliefLostChristGrewGrew UpJesus ChristFaithfulAbstractPersonal RelationshipsLost FaithPoints In Life Author:Carly Fiorina
“I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.” JesusChurchMovementGrewGrew UpCaliforniaSan Francisco Author:Sara Zarr
“I want to tell you about the God that actually showed up and healed my heart. Not the God I grew up, because the God I grew up was fundamentally, and I use the word advisedly, fundamentally untrustworthy -- schizophrenic, narcissistic, unreachable, unknowable, and my concept within which I grew up was that Jesus -- He likes me -- but He came to save me from God the Father -- who was the one who was angry and distant, and unreachable, unknowable. All of that had to come crashing down.” WantHeartUseFatherJesusGrewMy HeartGrew UpConceptsAngryLikesHealedNarcissisticSave MeSchizophrenicUntrustworthyUnreachableCrashing Down Author:William P. Young
“After I released 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' people started saying, Oh, it's kind of risky. You're coming out with a religious song. And I was thinking, Really? I grew up in Oklahoma; I always had a close relationship with God. I never thought it was risky in the least. If anything, I thought it was the safest thing I could do.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindSongJesusReligiousGrewGrew UpWheelsComing OutRelationship With GodOklahomaClose Relationship Author:Carrie Underwood
“My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.” WayFirstsBelieveMotherFatherJesusBrotherGrewMomHusbandGrew UpExesNunFranciscans Author:John Fugelsang