Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they’re not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

We are not at war against Islam.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

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.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.