Lord, help my poor soul.

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.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

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.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

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

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

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

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

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.