God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

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

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

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

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

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

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

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

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

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

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.