God looks after children, animals and idiots.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

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.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

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 so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

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.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

The soul is healed by being with children.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

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

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

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

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

I have always believed in God.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.