John A. Powell Quotes

I don't ask myself, "Well, does God exist or does God not exist?" I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, "God, I can't do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink today. Help me not to take a drug today." And that works fine for me.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

Act of Faith

When someone does not want what God has to offer, He is not going to force it on them.

At the end of the day, I do think there's a higher power, and the way I feel about things and choose to do things has an effect on that outcome.

Without God, for me, I'm not the best version of myself.

It does not matter if you believe in God, because God believes in you.

Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.

God never gives up on us no matter how hard we try to get ourselves loose. God does not let go. That doesn't mean he controls everything we do. It doesn't mean he puts a bridle on us and leads us by the nose. He gives each one of us free will and common sense and a spirit that can communicate with his. When we go through afflictions, he allows us to choose our response. But no matter what our response may be, he sticks around to the bitter end.

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.

I choose to believe in God because it makes things better.

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

Faith is powerful spiritual dynamic, and it is something God responds to and blesses.

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

Believe in the power of prayer - it is real, it is wonderful, it is tremendous.

I believe in God.....I gain strength from God. I believe in Jehovah, God, very much.....I believe in God and love God.

A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.

Our victory rests not on faith in our spirituality. Our victory rests on faith in our God.

I think faith can be anything. It can be believing in yourself, or if you believe there's a higher being that's watching over you.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can't argue with a guy like that.

I believe that Providence would never have allowed us to see the victory of the Movement if it had the intention after all to destroy us at the end.

And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.