The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

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.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Our 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.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

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

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

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.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t evolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.