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.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

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.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

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.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

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!

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

They say miracles are past.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

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.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

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.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

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

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

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.