I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

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

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

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.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Theology is unnecessary.

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.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

I have always believed in God.

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

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

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

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.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

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

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

My message is that God is a good God.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.