I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

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

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Faith never makes a confession.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

I’m an atheist.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

I think I’ve really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.

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.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

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

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

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.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

God’s desire is that we excel.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.