I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

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

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

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

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

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

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

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

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.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

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.

The ‚kingdom of Heaven‘ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‚upon the earth‘ or ‚after death.‘

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

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.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

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.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.