Duty cannot exist without faith.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

What we will do is we’ll say, ‚Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.‘ But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

I answer only to God.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Theology is unnecessary.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?