Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Where there is love there is life.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

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

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

The future will be better tomorrow.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Where love is, there God is also.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‚many mansions‘ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Christians are not limited to any church.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It’s just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

You just have to have a simple faith.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.