Each one prays to God according to his own light.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

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

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

Religion is just mind control.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

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.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

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.

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

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

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.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

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

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

The ‚kingdom of Heaven‘ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‚upon the earth‘ or ‚after death.‘

Where love is, there God is also.

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

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

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.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.