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.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Compliment three people every day.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

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

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

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.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

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.‘