No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

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

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It’s important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Where love is, there God is also.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

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

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

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.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.