The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said – one of the famous lady novelists – ‚unhappy is the family that contains an author‘?

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

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

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

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

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.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

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.

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

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

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

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Every loss of life is terrible.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

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.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.