If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn’t believe that, about other possibilities?

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t evolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

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.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

We are eternal beings – spirit children of heavenly parents.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

No violent extreme endures.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

Act, and God will act.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

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

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

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.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

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.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‚Independent Women,‘ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.