There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

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

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

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

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

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

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

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.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

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.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

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.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

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

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

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.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.