We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

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

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Tell the children the truth.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

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

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

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.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

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

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

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.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

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

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.