I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

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.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

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

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

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.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

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.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

Now, we can’t stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time – if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.

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.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.