Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

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.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

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

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

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

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

I’m a Christian by choice.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

All of my writing is God-given.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

My wife is already in Heaven.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

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.

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.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Where love is, there God is also.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

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.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.