A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

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.

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.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

By that sin fell the angels.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

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.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

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.

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.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

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.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

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.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

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

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

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.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.