God to me is love.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

I love the sea.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

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

Single life is so overrated.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

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

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

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

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

Intimates are predestined.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.