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

They say miracles are past.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

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

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

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

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

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

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

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.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

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.

I think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

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.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

God to me is love.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

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.

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

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

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

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

God always takes the simplest way.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

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.

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.