To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

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.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

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

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

Lord, help my poor soul.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

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.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

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

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

The 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.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

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

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Prayer 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.

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