I answer only to God.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

Christians are not limited to any church.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

I believe in singing.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

There is no God-given right to victory on the battlefield. You win that through the skill and the devotion, the valor and the ferocity of your troops.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

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.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

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!

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

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

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

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

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.