God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

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

Let no such man be trusted.

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

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

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.

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

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

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

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

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

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

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.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

God’s desire is that we excel.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

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

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

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.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Act, and God will act.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

God is everywhere.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

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

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

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

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.