The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

I’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.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.

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

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

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

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.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

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

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

There are so many things we have to overcome in this life with Jesus, His work on the cross. He’s paid the ultimate price for us, so I’m proud to be a child of God.

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

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

I have always believed in God.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

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

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.