If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

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

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

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

Leadership is influence.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

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

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

They say miracles are past.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

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

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.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‚Do as You promised.‘

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

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 don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.