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.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

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.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

We are eternal beings – spirit children of heavenly parents.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

God always wants us to be growing.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

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

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

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.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

The ‚kingdom of Heaven‘ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‚upon the earth‘ or ‚after death.‘

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.