I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

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.

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.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

The 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.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Where love is, there God is also.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

Such 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.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

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.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

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.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.