The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Forgotten is forgiven.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

I serve God.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others – we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

God always has patience.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

You just have to have a simple faith.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

Heaven means to be one with God.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.