If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

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

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

God to me is love.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Religion is just mind control.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

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

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

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.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

Our God is a forgiving God.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

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

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

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.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

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.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

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