Every day I pray about all I do.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

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

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

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

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.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Truth is a pathless land.

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.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

God always wants us to be growing.

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

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

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

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

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

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.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

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

Saints need sinners.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.