First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

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

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

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.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

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

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

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

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

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

I serve God.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

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.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Faith never makes a confession.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.