A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

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

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

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

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

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

I am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ‚eternity‘; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

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.‘

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

God does not play dice.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

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

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

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

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

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.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

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

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

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.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.