From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

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

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

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.‘

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

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.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

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.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

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

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.