God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

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.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

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

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

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.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

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

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.

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

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

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.