But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Things do not change; we change.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

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

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

The only shame is to have none.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

Never find fault with the absent.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Truth is a pathless land.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

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.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.