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

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Every man is his own hell.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

Truth is a pathless land.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

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

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

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.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

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

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

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

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

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.