I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

No pressure, no diamonds.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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

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.

Hope is a waking dream.

Jesus said, ‚The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.‘ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‚kingdom,‘ he would have said, ‚dimension.‘ And ‚heaven‘ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

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

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

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 is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

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

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

My mother insisted that her children read.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.