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.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

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.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

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

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.

I answer only to God.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

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

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

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.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

God to me is love.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

My wife is already in Heaven.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

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

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

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.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.