Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

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

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

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

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Theology is unnecessary.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

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.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

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

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

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