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.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

True friends stab you in the front.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

All of my writing is God-given.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

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.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

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.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

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

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

The Gospel has never changed.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

Where love is, there God is also.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

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.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Hate has no place in the house of God.