Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

My life is my message.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I kinda live where I find myself.

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

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

To ‚choose‘ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I grew up in a funny way.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.