Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

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

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.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

At times, I’ve referred to Christ’s miracles, and have said, ‚Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.‘

God always has patience.

The 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.‘

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

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.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

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.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

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 wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

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

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

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.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

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

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.