I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

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

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

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

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

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.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

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

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

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.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

Theology is unnecessary.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.