Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Every day I pray about all I do.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

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

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.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

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

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‚Do as You promised.‘

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

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.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

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?

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.