By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

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

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

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

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.