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.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

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.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Marriage is the death of hope.

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

My grandpa was a preacher.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

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

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

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 may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

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

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

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

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

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.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill 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.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

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 can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Theology is unnecessary.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.