No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

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.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

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.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

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

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

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

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

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

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Lord, help my poor soul.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

God wants to bless us where we are.

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.

Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.