I’m a Christian by choice.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

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

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

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

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems – from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that’s available to us as Christians.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

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.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it’s a trend.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

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