To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

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.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

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 this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

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

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

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.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

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

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

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

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.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

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

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

You just have to have a simple faith.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

I am a Catholic.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

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