I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

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

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

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

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

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

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

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

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.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran’s nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

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.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

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.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

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

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

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

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.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

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

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

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.