I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

Love can do much, but duty more.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

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.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

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?

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.