Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‚human stratum‘ may not be homogeneous.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

We boil at different degrees.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

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.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

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.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

I’m a Christian by choice.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.