I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

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

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

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.

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Whether full-time missionaries or members, we should all be good examples of the believers in Jesus Christ.

Youth is wasted on the young.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

I am not young enough to know everything.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

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

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

The Gospel has never changed.

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.‘

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.