We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

God always wants us to be growing.

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.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

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

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.‘

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

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

Non-violence is the article of faith.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

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

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

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.

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

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.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

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

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

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.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.