We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

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.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

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.

Lord, help my poor soul.

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

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

I serve God.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Every day I pray about all I do.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

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

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

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

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 thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

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.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

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.