Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‚You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.‘

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Giving is true having.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

God always wants us to be growing.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Now, we can’t stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time – if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

The future will be better tomorrow.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

My grandpa was a preacher.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

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

I love life because what more is there?

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Life is precious.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.