My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

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

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

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.

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.‘

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.‘

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

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.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

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.

I answer only to God.

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

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

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!‘

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.