In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Religion is just mind control.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn’t allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn’t do anything with my classmates.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

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.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

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

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.