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

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

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.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

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.

How can we help President Obama?

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

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.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

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.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

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.