We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

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.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

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

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

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.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

The faith that stands on authority is not 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.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

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

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.