If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

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

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney – for his family and our country.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

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

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

Solitude is independence.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Forgiveness is God’s command.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.