To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

I’m a Christian by choice.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

I just want to lobby for God.

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.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

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

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

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

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

I think everyone should be with who they love.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

Love is an interesting thing.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

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

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

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.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

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’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

All mankind love a lover.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Life loves the liver of it.

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.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

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

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.