I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

I still think I am the greatest.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

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.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

I love imperfections.

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.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.