Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn’t in FAO Schwarz.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

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 I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

Lord, help my poor soul.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.