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

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

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

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

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.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

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!

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

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?

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Pray, and let God worry.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

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.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

God always takes the simplest way.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

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.‘

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

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.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

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

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.