About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

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

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

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

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

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

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

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.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

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

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

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

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that’s available to us as Christians.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

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.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church’s credibility.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

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.

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

I have always believed in God.

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

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.