I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

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

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I answer only to God.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

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

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

Lord, help my poor soul.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Religion is just mind control.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

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

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.