We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

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

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

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

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

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

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

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Truth is a pathless land.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Act, and God will act.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

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.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

We are eternal beings – spirit children of heavenly parents.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

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.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

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

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.