Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

There’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

My message is that God is a good God.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

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.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

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.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

God always wants us to be growing.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.