If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

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.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

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

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

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.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

We think too much and feel too little.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

My life is mine to remember.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

If you want to live in the fullness of God’s anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.