I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

God’s desire is that we excel.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Ethics and power are separate.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

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.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Politics have no relation to morals.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

I serve God.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘