“It goes beyond mere ‘acknowledgment’ of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer.”

This case is not about whether marriages between same-sex couples are consistent or inconsistent with the teachings of a particular religion, whether such marriages are moral or immoral or whether they are something that should be encouraged or discouraged….

Quite simply, this case is about liberty and equality, the two cornerstones of the rights protected by the United States Constitution.

An inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.

In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community that the government may not use its authority to try to influence an individual’s decision on whether and when to pray.

We are made for Christ, and nothing less will ever satisfy us.

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.

Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil – it has no point.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one’s own life in order to make room for God’s life.

The Gospel of John opens with Jesus Christ in the bosom of God, and closes with the sinner in the bosom of Jesus Christ.

When I lost hope, hope came and found me, when I stopped believing in faith, faith believed in me.