The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

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

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

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

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

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

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

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

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

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

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.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

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.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

God does not play dice.

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.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Truth is a pathless land.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

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

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I have to be seen to be believed.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.