I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

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

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

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.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

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.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

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.

Theology is unnecessary.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‚Do as You promised.‘

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

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.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

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

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

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.

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

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

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

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

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

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

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.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

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.