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

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

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

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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.

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.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

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

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

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.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

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

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

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

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

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.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

God helps those who help themselves.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.