If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. ‚A miracle a minute‘ would not be a bad slogan for God.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

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.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.