Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

I answer only to God.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

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

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

The Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

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

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

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

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

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.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.