God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.

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

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

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.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

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

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

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

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

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

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

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Hate has no place in the house of God.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

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.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

God wants to bless us where we are.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

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.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

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

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

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

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

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.