When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Heaven means to be one with God.

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 have faith in our leaders of commerce, don’t buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

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

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

The song ‚Innocent‘ is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

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.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

Our God is a forgiving God.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

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.

Every day I pray about all I do.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

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

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

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

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

I’m writing an unauthorized autobiography.

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.‘

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.