“You pray for yourself and just ask God to give you strength.”

I think what’s happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.

We don’t need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I guarantee you. For them not to be would be terrorist malpractice. And we need to – to choose the right choice, not these false choices.

It’s a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one’s life accordingly.

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.

We’re not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.

And if we can’t get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?

And I’ve always said, ‘If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn’t necessary.’ We need to be able to understand that if we’re going to make real progress.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

(I’m) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.

The kind of job doesn’t matter. The length of time on the job doesn’t matter… If you work hard and do your best, you’ll be recognized and move onward.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

I know that there are many peaceful Muslims who do not adhere to these beliefs. But until these tenants are fully renounced…I cannot advocate any Muslim candidate for President.

Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

There is more you can do after you pray.

Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.