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 most positive men are the most credulous.

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.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

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

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.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

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

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

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.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

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.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

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.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.