Saints need sinners.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

Morality is contraband in war.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

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.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

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

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction – especially autobiographies and biographies. I’ve read ‚Long Walk to Freedom‘ by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I’m totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

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

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

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.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.