There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

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

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Act, and God will act.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

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

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Lord, help my poor soul.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

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 best way to know God is to love many things.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

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.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

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 don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

Pray, and let God worry.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

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.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.