Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

I never fall in love.

Love can do much, but duty more.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.