Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

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.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

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

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

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.‘

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

God to me is love.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

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

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

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.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

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.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

God always takes the simplest way.

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.