When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

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

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

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

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

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 sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

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.

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 don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

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.

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.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.