When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

God wants to bless us where we are.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

They say miracles are past.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

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.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

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

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

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?‘

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

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.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.