I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Religion is just mind control.

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

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.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

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

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

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

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

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.

Faith never makes a confession.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

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

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

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.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

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

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

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

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

The Gospel has never changed.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

My grandpa was a preacher.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.