A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

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

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

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

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Theology is unnecessary.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

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.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

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.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

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.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

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

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

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.‘

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

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.