We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
Ronald ReaganThe world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Florence NightingaleAs you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don’t line up with God’s Word, you’ll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.
Joyce MeyerPart of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
Douglas MacArthurI’m writing an unauthorized autobiography.
Steven WrightWe knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.
Stephen CurryYou know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
LeBron JamesWhenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.
Beyonce KnowlesThe Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.
Joyce MeyerGod made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.
Joel OsteenWe’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.
Joyce MeyerI’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.
Margaret AtwoodFaith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Blaise PascalI believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.
Joel OsteenIt is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.
Charles SpurgeonGod is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
Billy GrahamSacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.
Lou HoltzDear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.
Charles SpurgeonIt sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.
Nipsey HussleWhoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
Franklin D. RooseveltIf you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!
Joyce MeyerSin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.
Pope FrancisNeither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.
Terry PratchettMysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGod doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.
Joyce MeyerRitual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI am a Catholic.
Paulo CoelhoFor ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinOne word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.
Charles SpurgeonI serve God.
Mr. TWe are twice armed if we fight with faith.
PlatoGod does not play dice.
Albert EinsteinMy faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.
Mr. TGod and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.
Dolly PartonLet us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
George WashingtonI believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
Charles SpurgeonYou will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.
Charles SpurgeonUnless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
EpictetusMan shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Jesus ChristSo I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
Jesus ChristClinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?
Russell M. NelsonI did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
Mahatma GandhiMy evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.
Charles SpurgeonEven if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
Christopher HitchensWe must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
Pope FrancisWhen doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.
Joyce MeyerPrayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma GandhiMy mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.
Angelina JolieO, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.
Charles SpurgeonWhen his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘
Stephen KingThe roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.
Charles SpurgeonFor Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.
Desmond TutuI don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.
Jane GoodallI know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.
Abraham LincolnJesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.
Mahatma GandhiLord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.
Charles SpurgeonOur prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
SocratesOne’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.
Mahatma GandhiChrist comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
Isaac NewtonI used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
Lou Holtz