God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

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

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

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.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

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.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

Duty cannot exist without faith.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

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.

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

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

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

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.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

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.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

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