Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

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.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Every day I pray about all I do.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

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

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

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

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Christian character? Have we never spoken to them the Word of Life? Lord, arouse us to a deep concern for all with whom we come in contact from day to day.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

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.

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