The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

I serve God.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

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.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

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

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

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

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

I just want to lobby for God.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.