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

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

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

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

I don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

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.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

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

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

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

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

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.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.