In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

God’s desire is that we excel.

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.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Faith never makes a confession.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

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

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Heaven means to be one with God.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

They say miracles are past.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

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

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.