God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

God always takes the simplest way.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

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

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

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

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

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

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

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

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.