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.

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

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

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.

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

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

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

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

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

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

I have always believed in God.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

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.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.