People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

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

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

I am a tough guy.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

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.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

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.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

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.‘

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

God to me is love.

An index is a great leveller.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Jesus said, ‚The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.‘ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‚kingdom,‘ he would have said, ‚dimension.‘ And ‚heaven‘ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.