In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

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

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.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

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.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

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.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

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

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.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

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

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

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.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

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.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

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

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.