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

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

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

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

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.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

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.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

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.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

There are no second acts in American lives.