If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

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.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

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

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

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.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

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

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

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

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.