Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

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.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

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.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I always wanted a family.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

I answer only to God.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.