Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

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.

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.

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

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

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

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

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.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

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

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

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.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

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

Facts are stubborn things.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Our God is a forgiving God.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

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.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

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.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.