I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

God always has patience.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

God wants to bless us where we are.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

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.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

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

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

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

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

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.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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.