Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

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.

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.

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.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

God’s first creature, which was light.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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

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.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

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

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

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

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

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.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

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.

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.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

Religions get lost as people do.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.