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.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.