Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

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.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It’s important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

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

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

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

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

The Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

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.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.