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

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

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

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

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 think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

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 die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

God has entrusted me with myself.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

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

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

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

God created man, but I could do better.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

I just want to lobby for God.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

The Gospel has never changed.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.