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.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

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

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

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

I answer only to God.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

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

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

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

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.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

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

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

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

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

God’s first creature, which was light.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

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.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

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.

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.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

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

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

I’m a Christian by choice.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

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