Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

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

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

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

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

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.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

When I see grace in a woman, that’s very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

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

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

There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

You’ve gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we’re just nice, sort of ‚death by cupcake.‘

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.