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

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

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

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.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

God created man, but I could do better.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

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.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

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.

We are not at war against Islam.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

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

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

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 afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

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.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

I’m an atheist.

I just want to lobby for God.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

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.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.