The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

I am a Catholic.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

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.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Faith never makes a confession.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

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

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

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

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‚many mansions‘ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

As 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.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

I don’t write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

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

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.