Karl G. Maeser Quotes

I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.

I felt the Lord at a young age. And it was one of those things where that seed was planted, you know, when I was a kid.

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.

We are all in Christ's energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so that's what I do.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.

The Lord, over the years, grew a seed in my heart to make faith-based films.

A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

And the Lord gave me [the name] “Sojourner” because I was to travel up an' down the land showin' the people their sins an' bein' a sign unto them. Afterwards I told the Lord I wanted another name, cause everybody else had two names, an' the Lord gave me “Truth”, because I was to declare the truth to the people.

I want to continue to strive towards deepening my relationship with God and finding peace in whatever trials or circumstances I may be given.

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

We know the Lord makes His servants bold. The young boy Joseph who saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a grove of trees was transformed into a spiritual giant.

Conversion is an enlarging, a deepening, and a broadening of the undergirding base of testimony. It is the result of revelation from God, accompanied by individual repentance, obedience, and diligence.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.