If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

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

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.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

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.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

Jesus said, ‚The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.‘ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‚kingdom,‘ he would have said, ‚dimension.‘ And ‚heaven‘ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

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.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

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

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

If you wished to be loved, love.

I read the Bible every day.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.