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.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

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

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

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.

Christians are not limited to any church.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Your friend is your needs answered.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

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

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

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

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

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.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

Our intention creates our reality.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.