I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

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

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

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

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

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

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

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.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

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

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‚many mansions‘ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

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

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

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

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

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

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.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.