In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

Truth is a pathless land.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

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

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Our life is made by the death of others.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

The ‚kingdom of Heaven‘ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‚upon the earth‘ or ‚after death.‘

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

I am a Catholic.

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.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

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.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

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.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

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

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

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

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.