Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

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

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‚Do as You promised.‘

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

Pray, and let God worry.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God’s law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Religion is just mind control.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

I’m tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro – that’s the Scotch-Irish part.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

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.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.