Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Christians are not limited to any church.

I am what I am. A fighter.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

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

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don’t line up with God’s Word, you’ll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

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

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

We are all alike, on the inside.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

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 music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

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

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

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.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

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

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.