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

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

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

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

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

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

There are so many things we have to overcome in this life with Jesus, His work on the cross. He’s paid the ultimate price for us, so I’m proud to be a child of God.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

Danger is sauce for prayers.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

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!‘

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Hate has no place in the house of God.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.