All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

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.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

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.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

I answer only to God.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

I’m pretty laid-back in real life. I just love hanging with my friends and making jokes. The jokes don’t stop – literally, all day.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.