God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

I know I’m more on television, and I’m more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

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.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

God’s desire is that we excel.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

The skin of my character in ‚The Man Who Fell to Earth‘ was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don’t like that. It’s great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you’re worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

Storytelling is about two things; it’s about character and plot.

The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

I was going to McDonald’s and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me – it wouldn’t even faze them. Or I’d sit up at Denny’s or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.