God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

God does not play dice.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

I read the Bible every day.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

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.

The Gospel has never changed.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

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

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

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

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.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.