Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

It’s one thing to be religious, but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

I have always believed in God.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Lyrics are so important, but they’re really underrated.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

I’m a Christian by choice.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

My message is that God is a good God.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

The truth is lived, not taught.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

God’s first creature, which was light.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.