To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

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

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

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.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

Effective action is always unjust.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

My grandpa was a preacher.

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

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

You just have to have a simple faith.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

God always takes the simplest way.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

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

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

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.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

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

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.