Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

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

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

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.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

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.

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 always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

People tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

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

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

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.

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.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

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

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

God to me is love.

I’ve had everything pierced at some point.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Heaven means to be one with God.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

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