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.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

God does not play dice.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

Act, and God will act.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

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

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

All of my writing is God-given.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

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

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

I just want to lobby for God.

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

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‚many mansions‘ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

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

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

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