Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

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

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

There’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

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.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

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.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

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

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

An honest man is always a child.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

I do not pilfer victory.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

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

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

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.