I read the Bible every day.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

You just have to have a simple faith.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

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

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

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.

Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

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

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

I am a Catholic.

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.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

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.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

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

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.