I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

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

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

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

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

Pray, and let God worry.

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they’re not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

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

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.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

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