What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

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?

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

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

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

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.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

They say miracles are past.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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 got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

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.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

Basically, I live to do gigs.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

God does not play dice.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

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.

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.

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

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.