God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

You can be happy where you are.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.