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.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

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 don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

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.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

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

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

‚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.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

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.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

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

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

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

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

I serve God.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

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

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.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Now, we can’t stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time – if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I am not a crook.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.