The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Lord, help my poor soul.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

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’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

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

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

God helps those who help themselves.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

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.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that’s available to us as Christians.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

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.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

Love is the one wild card.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

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