I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

I don’t see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear ‚pop,‘ you’re like, ‚Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,‘ and I feel like, ‚Uh-uh. That’s not me.‘

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

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

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

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

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

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.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

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.‘

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, ‚God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!‘

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

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

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

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

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

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.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

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.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

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.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

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.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.