To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

I’m a Christian by choice.

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.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

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

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

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.

Every day I pray about all I do.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

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

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

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

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

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.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

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.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

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

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.