Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

We are not at war against Islam.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

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

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

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!

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

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.

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

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they’re not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.