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

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Bring them on.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

My wife is already in Heaven.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

I’m afraid to fail again.

Everybody has a purpose.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

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.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

I just want to lobby for God.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Our God is a forgiving God.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.