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.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

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

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

Never take anything for granted.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

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

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

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.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

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

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

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

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.