I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

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.‘

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

I am a Catholic.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

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

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others – we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

I don’t believe it. Prove it to me and I still won’t believe it.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

There are so many things we have to overcome in this life with Jesus, His work on the cross. He’s paid the ultimate price for us, so I’m proud to be a child of God.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

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.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

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

I’ll die a crazy old man!

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.