I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t evolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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 have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

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

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

God to me is love.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

Heaven means to be one with God.

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

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

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.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

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.

Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

The 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.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

You just have to have a simple faith.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.