As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

I never fall in love.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‚Do as You promised.‘

Those whom the gods love grow young.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Now, we can’t stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time – if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

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.

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.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.