B. C. Forbes Quotes

I've been able to stay good because of my family and keeping God first. If you don't have God in your life, how are you going to navigate through this world?

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.

I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Whenever they sang a certain song in church, I used to sing it the loudest: 'Lead me, guide me, along the way!' One day, as I was singing this song, I felt as if the Lord was saying to me, 'Lead you along what way?' I realized then that if you don't have a plan, God doesn't have anything specific to direct you in.

I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.

Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture.

I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.

I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Faith is something that's been created to help people get through life.

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

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

My faith is my life. It defines me. My faith doesn’t influence my decisions; it drives them.