God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Trust, but verify.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

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

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

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

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.

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

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

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

My grandpa was a preacher.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

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.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

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

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

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.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

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