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.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

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

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

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

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

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.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

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.

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

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

Boldness be my friend.

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.

Theology is unnecessary.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.