He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

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

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Theology is unnecessary.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

I only want my work to make people happy.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

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

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Treachery has existed as long as there’s been warfare, and there’s always been a few people that you couldn’t trust.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.