There’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

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.

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

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

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

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

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

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

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

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

God made me and broke the mold.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

God’s desire is that we excel.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

God created man, but I could do better.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

In 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 2012, once again, I was very disturbed about some of the intolerance I was seeing in the party, so I made a statement saying there’s a level of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party. And there was, and I think there still is.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

I serve God.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

How can a president not be an actor?

Heaven means to be one with God.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

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.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

God always wants us to be growing.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.