Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

The ‚kingdom of Heaven‘ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‚upon the earth‘ or ‚after death.‘

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Giving is true having.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

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.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

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

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

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.

I’m not intelligent. I’m not arrogant. I’m just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn’t want to become a writer – it just happened.

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.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

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

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

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