India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Mark TwainUntil you pray, God cannot work.
Joyce MeyerI care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.
John MuirIf only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
Woody AllenPeople have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.
Kendrick LamarEverywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘
Billy GrahamGod is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen KingIf 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.
Brian EnoTo realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
Eckhart TolleGreater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
Lyndon B. JohnsonBelief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise PascalWe must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
George EliotI describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
Dalai LamaBeing 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.
George WashingtonWoe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas CarlyleI thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.
Maya AngelouOccasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.
Charles SpurgeonHappiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise PascalNo matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!
Joyce MeyerRead the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.
Billy GrahamAnd know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.
Jesus ChristThe 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.
Napoleon BonaparteChoosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.
Joyce MeyerTheology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. MenckenSuch is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.
VoltaireGod always wants us to be growing.
Joel OsteenGod knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.
Billy GrahamHow shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander PopeThat’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
Barack ObamaPiety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.
Joel OsteenI think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.
Joel OsteenAnd I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James MadisonI consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.
Joyce MeyerDon’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
Martin Luther King, Jr.When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.
Joyce MeyerWe all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.
Joyce MeyerEvery person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.
Joyce MeyerI don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.
John LennonI do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
Abraham LincolnSaints need sinners.
Alan WattsAnyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor RooseveltI find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Douglas AdamsAs apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.
Russell M. NelsonIf we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
Blaise PascalLord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.
Charles SpurgeonChristmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.
Joel OsteenThe ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
Eckhart TolleI am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert EinsteinI believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. LewisReligion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand RussellPeople 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.
Jane GoodallYou can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.
Joel OsteenI 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.
Joel OsteenThe Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘
Billy GrahamAs I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.
Billy GrahamI am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.
Dalai LamaI am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
Charlie ChaplinGod cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
Mahatma GandhiThe devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.
Joyce Meyer