To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

I’ve been doing comedy longer than I haven’t been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on ‚The Tonight Show.‘ There’s truly nothing like it; it’s intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

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

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

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

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

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 mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

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 is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

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

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

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

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

The Gospel has never changed.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

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

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.