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

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

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

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

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.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

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.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don’t line up with God’s Word, you’ll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

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

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

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

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

I believe in being an innovator.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

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.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

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.

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

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

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.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

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.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.