God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

In art the best is good enough.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That’s the Jackie Chan diary.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

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

I serve God.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

My message is that God is a good God.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince – for the vocals, anyway.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.