Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Trust, but verify.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

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.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

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.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‚many mansions‘ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

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

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

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

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

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.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

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

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

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

I don’t believe in icons.

I am a Catholic.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.