I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

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

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

If you want to live in the fullness of God’s anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

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

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

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

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

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.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

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.

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.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

Sometimes 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.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

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.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

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

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters – and the church does not speak for me.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I’m teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

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.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

You just have to have a simple faith.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

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.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

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

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

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.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

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.