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

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

I love to watch times change!

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

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

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

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.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

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.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

God always has patience.

Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

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

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

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.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

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.