At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

God helps those who help themselves.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

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

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

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.

It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Where there is love there is life.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I answer only to God.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

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 love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

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.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

My message is that God is a good God.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.