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 don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

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.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

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.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

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.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

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

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

They say miracles are past.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

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

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

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.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations… They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.