Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
C. S. LewisThe Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.
Billy GrahamIt’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
BonoReligious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
James MadisonThe marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
Hermann HesseGod’s desire is that we excel.
Joel OsteenIf thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
EpictetusHatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
BuddhaRefuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.
Joyce MeyerFear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma GandhiTo every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.
Charles SpurgeonI maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.
Vincent Van GoghIt’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.
Joyce MeyerIntolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.
Mahatma GandhiLord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.
Charles SpurgeonFaith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen KellerThe Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
Eleanor RooseveltThere is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.
Joyce MeyerWhat ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Edmund BurkeThis is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai LamaI am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
Kanye WestAnyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
Martin LutherThe gospel to me is simply irresistible.
Blaise PascalTo terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
Christopher HitchensGod just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.
RihannaIt doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.
Stephen CurryThe way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin FranklinMany times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.
Joel OsteenFaith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.
Joel OsteenAll I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSaving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.
Charles SpurgeonIn prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?
Charles SpurgeonDon’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.
Lady GagaOne strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Albert EinsteinTo be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinBut I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jesus ChristStart with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
King SolomonThe American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.
Angelina JolieIf there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Friedrich NietzscheThere is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
John D. RockefellerYou 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.
Joyce MeyerNeither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‚human stratum‘ may not be homogeneous.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.
George WashingtonWhat the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
Albert CamusReligion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund BurkeI pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
Dan QuayleSometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.
Joel OsteenThere are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.
Thich Nhat HanhBeing part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.
Vivienne WestwoodHere’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.
Bob DylanSometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.
Joel OsteenI shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. WashingtonA church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
H. L. MenckenI never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
Fidel CastroIndeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.
Russell M. NelsonEach party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. MenckenOptimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen KellerHe who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
B. C. Forbes