When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

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.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

God wants to bless us where we are.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

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.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

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.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

I answer only to God.

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.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

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.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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 want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.