Ross Douthat Quotes

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.

It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

Do not suppose the statements of the Prophets to be true; they are all fabrications.

As an 18-year-old, I really sensed the call of God. What was interesting about that time was, I come from a very conservative part of the body of Christ, so there was really nothing for a woman to do.

I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.

When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to Heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to his children. You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

As always, I am receptive to whatever doors God may open.

Liberals may mock people of faith who believe he was chosen to protect their values, but I believe Donald Trump is fulfilling his pledges and I pray he will continue to lead with divine guidance.

There is a department of treasury in Heaven, which says God is watching over everything you do and you are storing up eternal treasure that will go so far beyond what we can even imagine.

Having grown up Catholic, my prayers were scripted - memorized and deployed in church and before bed. As a young adult, I veered off script and talked to God more plainly. And by 'talked to,' I mean that I basically asked for things to turn out the way I wanted them to.

I pray for John McArthur. I pray for, that God would tender his heart. I pray that he would have eyes of understanding.

I walk with the Lord, just trusting day by day and week by week and month by month, what the next season holds and what the best next move for me is.

You know... life can be like a big game of Battleship. The enemy knows where your ships are and is trying to call the right number and sink them. But he can't sink you if you're with God.

Why do evangelicals support Trump? It could be because he amplified his religious messaging on the campaign trail by saying that women who get abortions should be punished and that he's not in favor of same sex marriage.

We need a Congress that understands the sanctity of life, the sanctity of traditional values, the sanctity of traditional marriage.

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

I found that there were things that God could reveal to me that I could never get myself physically.

I prayed about it consistently - that God would direct me in the right path and that, when it would happen, I would know that I'm in the right place.

Thanks to Allah, I trust myself to distinguish between right and wrong.

Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law.

Once God puts something in your heart - you know, God talks to everyone different.

God is a spirit and converses with us in a quiet atmosphere because our minds are not capable of listening to his voice when they are filled with noise and confusion.

I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.