They say miracles are past.
William ShakespeareI do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.
Keanu ReevesI am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.
Billy GrahamThere is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
Wayne DyerLet us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFaith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
Martin LutherSincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.
Billy GrahamI do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
Harry S. TrumanIntolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.
Mahatma GandhiYoung men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
Joseph AddisonThe Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Galileo GalileiDay 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.
Albert SchweitzerIt is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas JeffersonI’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.
Joel OsteenWe must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.
C. S. LewisIt is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
J. K. RowlingThis is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.
Joel OsteenThe confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.
Pope FrancisI believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Lou HoltzWhatever 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!
William JamesI cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.
Henry David ThoreauLet 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!
Charles Spurgeon‚Royal Beatings‘ was my first story, and it was published in 1977. But I sent all my early stories to ‚The New Yorker‘ in the 1950s, and then I stopped sending for a long time and sent only to magazines in Canada. ‚The New Yorker‘ sent me nice notes, though – penciled, informal messages. They never signed them. They weren’t terribly encouraging.
Alice MunroThere’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.
Joel OsteenI have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.
Dalai LamaBut for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Mahatma GandhiChildren begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar WildeSometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.
Joyce MeyerObedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.
Russell M. NelsonWe are punished by our sins, not for them.
Elbert HubbardYou can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘
Maya AngelouA sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinReligion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.
Mahatma GandhiI believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.
Joyce MeyerSolemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
C. S. LewisTo 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.
Charles SpurgeonAnd if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.
Maya AngelouI am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!
Joyce MeyerI am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.
Jimmy CarterIt is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen KellerI am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.
Paulo CoelhoIt’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.
Joyce MeyerBeing part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.
Vivienne WestwoodMy family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack ObamaI believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
John LennonWhy am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.
Mr. TThe fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin LutherThe Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.
Billy GrahamI am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.
Mr. TAs a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.
Mr. TThe happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
ChanakyaRefuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.
Joyce MeyerMy constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.
Jimmy CarterOur country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
Narendra ModiEvery spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI 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.
Joel OsteenI still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.
David BowiePrayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
Billy Graham