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

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

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

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Religions get lost as people do.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

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.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

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.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

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

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

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.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

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

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

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

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

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

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

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.