People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

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

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

God always takes the simplest way.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

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

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

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

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

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

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

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

The word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

I am a Catholic.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

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

We feel and know that we are eternal.

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

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.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

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.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.