Hate has no place in the house of God.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

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

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

God always takes the simplest way.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

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

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.