Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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 world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

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 don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

They say miracles are past.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

I have to be seen to be believed.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.