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

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

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

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

My message is that God is a good God.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

Saints need sinners.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

As we regularly spend time reading God’s Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‚many mansions‘ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

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I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

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.

There’s a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we’re to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we’re close to the end of the age.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.