It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

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

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

A useless life is an early death.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

God helps those who help themselves.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

In every parting there is an image of death.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

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.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout’s obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.