It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Religions get lost as people do.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

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

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

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

I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

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.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

I have to be seen to be believed.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

God made me and broke the mold.

God wants to bless us where we are.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

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

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

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

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.

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