The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

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.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

God is everywhere.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

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

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

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.

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

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

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

I serve God.

Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

I do believe in God. But you won’t find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What’s the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I’d rather do something I like doing as long as I’m being true to myself.