In the periods of my life when I’ve had least contact with the Church, I’ve always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it’s a relationship; it has good days and bad days. – Tom Hollander
A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn’t go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me. – Taya Kyle
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities. – Stanley Hauerwas
I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themselves. Whether it’s adoption, or helping people who are sick or poor, or whatever. That’s what God put us on this earth to do. – Tim Tebow
They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness. – Stephen Phillips
There’s a verse in the Bible says, ‘In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.’ And what brings me peace is the scripture. – Tammy Faye Bakker
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. – William Wilberforce
God gave us dreams, but he gave us kids to make all those dreams worthwhile. And when I look at all my kids, I say everything that I’ve ever went through in my life was worthwhile. – Tracy Morgan
Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me. – Sojourner Truth
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. – Simone Weil
People who couldn’t walk, they’d come in wheelchairs, and he’d make them walk. It’s just the power of God. It wasn’t my dad; it’s what God had instructed my dad to do. – Tory Lanez
We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God’s will into all of our daily activities. – William Griffith Wilson
God doesn’t want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That’s a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action. – Victoria Osteen
What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power. – Steve-O
Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God. – Story Musgrave
Here’s the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god. – Tim Wise
Facts are God’s arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. – Tryon Edwards
Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being ‘an expression of Turkish genius’ that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition. – Stephen Kinzer
I’m not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the church. – Shaun Cassidy
I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God. – Tony Campolo
I do not know any way to explain why God’s grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it. – Whittaker Chambers