I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

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

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

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.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

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

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

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

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

All of my writing is God-given.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

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.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

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