We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

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

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

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

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

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.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

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

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.