Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

It’s one thing to be religious, but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

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.

All religions have been made by men.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

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

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

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

My wife is already in Heaven.

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

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.‘

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.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

God always takes the simplest way.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

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.

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

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

It sure is hell to be president.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

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.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

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

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.