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

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

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.

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

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.

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?

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

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

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.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

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

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

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

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

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

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

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.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.