Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.

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.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

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

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

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

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

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.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

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.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I got my own back.