So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

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.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

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

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

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

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

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

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

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

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

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

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

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.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

God to me is love.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

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

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

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

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.