But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

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 have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

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

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

I don’t digest things with my mind.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

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.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

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.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

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

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

God made me and broke the mold.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia.

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.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

I like to let things breathe.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

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.‘

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.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.