Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‚many mansions‘ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

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

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

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

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

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.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Theology is unnecessary.

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.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

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

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

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that’s available to us as Christians.