If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Theology is unnecessary.

I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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.

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

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Money can’t buy life.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

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.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

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

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.