The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

Act, and God will act.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

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.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

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

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

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

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

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.

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

God does not play dice.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Lord, help my poor soul.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.