All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

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

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

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.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

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

Men freely believe that which they desire.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

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.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

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

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

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

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

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

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

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.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!