We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

I read the Bible every day.

Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

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

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

If you would judge, understand.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

From caring comes courage.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

They say miracles are past.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Compliment three people every day.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.