It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

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

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

I really believed that fear is contagious.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

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

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

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

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

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.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

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.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

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.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

I’m a Christian by choice.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

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