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.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

There are so many things we have to overcome in this life with Jesus, His work on the cross. He’s paid the ultimate price for us, so I’m proud to be a child of God.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‚Do as You promised.‘

Where liberty is, there is my country.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

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

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

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?

Morality is contraband in war.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

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

I’m a nationalist. I’m a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I’m a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I’m a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I’m a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I’m patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

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.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

Integrity has no need of rules.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

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

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

‚My country, right or wrong‘ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‚My mother, drunk or sober.‘

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

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

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.