A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

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

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

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 revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

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.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

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.

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

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

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

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

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.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.