I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

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

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

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

I have always believed in God.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

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

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

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.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

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

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

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 think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.