Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

It’s overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

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.

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.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Lord, help my poor soul.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

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 have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

I think it’s important to vote.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

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

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

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

The good of the people is the greatest law.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

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.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.