I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

All of my writing is God-given.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I don’t have many sad days.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Fun is good.

The future will be better tomorrow.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

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

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Religions get lost as people do.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

God is everywhere.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Never complain. Never explain.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.