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.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

There are so many things we have to overcome in this life with Jesus, His work on the cross. He’s paid the ultimate price for us, so I’m proud to be a child of God.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

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.‘

Life is a lively process of becoming.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

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.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

I read the Bible every day.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

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.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

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

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real – it happened when he was in Hell.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

God does not play dice.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

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.