In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

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.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

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.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

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

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

God helps those who help themselves.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.

As we regularly spend time reading God’s Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘