Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

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.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

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

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

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.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

We are eternal beings – spirit children of heavenly parents.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

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

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

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

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

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.

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

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

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.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

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

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

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

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.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

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

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

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.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

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

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.