John D. Rockefeller Quotes

Give us a religion that will help us to live—we can die without assistance.

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

I'm a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that He can intercede in all kinds of situations, and we need to have a little faith in many things.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

I don't know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and the doctors says, 'Hey, you've got less than two months to live and there's nothing we can do for you.' Who do they turn to when you're given something that earth shattering?

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people.

My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.

Do not concern yourself with politics and the world; your job is to connect the hearts to God.

Why do people stick with their God? That’s what they have.

A vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work; like watching the waves from the beach. But you will not get to Newfoundland by studying the Atlantic, and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in Flowers or music.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

I have a great faith in God and Jesus.

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.