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

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

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

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

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

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.

Where love is, there God is also.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

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.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

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

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

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

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

God helps those who help themselves.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

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.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

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

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

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

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.