Sam Levenson Quotes

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on the earth noticed that about Him.

First and foremost, praying about things and having the good Lord as a part of my life is a huge grounding thing for me.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

... common people may not presume by their intellect to attain to the sublime height as of revelation nor preach it to others.... There remains for them but one thing to do, to obey.

When you hear Allah's verses being rejected and mocked at by people, you must not sit with them till they start talking of other things.

To arrive at the truth in all things, we ought always to be ready to believe that what seems to us white is black if the hierarchical Church so defines it.

This nations must stand for or against Christ.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

I can't have discussions about it anymore, I just can't. When someone asks me if I've found Jesus, I say, 'Yeah, I saw him at a Nirvana concert a couple of years ago.' It's like, Jesus has got things to do, he's got a ten o'clock. He's not going to fix things for me, I have to fix things for myself, so I try and have a sense of humor about it and nobody finds my humor very amusing. We've just got to lighten up on the savior bit, folks. You know, get off the cross, we need the wood.

Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

Every morning, read seriously and reverently a portion of the Holy Scriptures, and acquaint yourselves with the history and doctrine thereof. It is a book full of light and wisdom, will make you wise to eternal life, and furnish you with directions and principles to guide and order your life safely and prudently.

Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.

I wasn't making fun of my father in-law's religion. And even if I was so what, it's a comedy. Religion should be made fun of, it's quite ridiculous isn't it. Think how people spend their lives, they have no idea. They go around as if this is a fact. It's so insane you know. If I really believed that stuff I'd keep it to myself. Lest somebody think I was out of my mind.

I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.