As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

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

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

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.

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

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

In my relationship with God, I’ve learned that if I follow a ‚formula‘ for how I spend my time with Him, then I’m just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

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

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

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

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

As we regularly spend time reading God’s Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

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.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

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

It’s a real strength for me that I’ve never minded the training process. It’s something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‚Well, good on you. See you there.‘

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

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

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.