The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

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

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

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

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

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.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

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!

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

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

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

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

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

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

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

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

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.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

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.

You just have to have a simple faith.

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.

Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Pray, and let God worry.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

Reason is the enemy of faith.