Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Every day I pray about all I do.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Saints need sinners.

God always has patience.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

My wife is already in Heaven.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

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

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

Intimates are predestined.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

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.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.