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.

Faith never makes a confession.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

God has entrusted me with myself.