Duty cannot exist without faith.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

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.

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.

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.

I don’t believe in icons.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

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.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

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.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

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.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.