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.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

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

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I have always believed in God.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

This is not a bad life.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

I 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.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

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.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

No driver is perfect.