Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Act, and God will act.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

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

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.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

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

God to me is love.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

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.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

A true man hates no one.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.