Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

My wife is already in Heaven.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

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

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

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.

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.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

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

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

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

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

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

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

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

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

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

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

The future will be better tomorrow.

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 do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

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

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

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

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

My message is that God is a good God.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.