I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

I serve God.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

Every day I pray about all I do.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

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.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

Act, and God will act.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Never take anything for granted.

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

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.