Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

I have always believed in 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.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

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

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

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.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

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.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

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.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

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

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

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

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn’t in FAO Schwarz.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.