God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

I know love is the answer.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

I am a Catholic.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

God to me is love.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.