I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

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

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

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

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Theology is unnecessary.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

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

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

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.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

I read the Bible every day.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

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