Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.

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

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

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.‘

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.

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.

God always has patience.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

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

If you want to live in the fullness of God’s anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

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

My message is that God is a good God.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

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

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

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

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

‚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.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

Every day I pray about all I do.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

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