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.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t evolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

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.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

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

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

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

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.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

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.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

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

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

I read the Bible every day.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

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

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Lord, help my poor soul.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Every day I pray about all I do.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.