Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

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.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

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.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

God made me and broke the mold.

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

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

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

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

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

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

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.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

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

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

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

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Until you pray, God cannot work.