Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.

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

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.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

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.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

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

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

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.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

God wants to bless us where we are.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

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

Non-violence is the article of faith.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

Jesus said, ‚The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.‘ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‚kingdom,‘ he would have said, ‚dimension.‘ And ‚heaven‘ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

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.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

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.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Theology is unnecessary.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.