God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

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.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it – namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

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

Game’s always been open arms with me.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

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 believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

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.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

We are all special cases.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

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

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

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.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

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

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘