I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

I serve God.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

My message is that God is a good God.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Faith never makes a confession.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Theology is unnecessary.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

We have an idea that we Americans are God’s chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God’s blessed. I tell you that God doesn’t love us any more than He does the Russians.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

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 your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

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.

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

As 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.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

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

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

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.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.