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

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

I answer only to God.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

I have no trouble sleeping.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

I just want to lobby for God.

I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

There are so many things we have to overcome in this life with Jesus, His work on the cross. He’s paid the ultimate price for us, so I’m proud to be a child of God.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of 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.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

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

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

Christians are not limited to any church.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.