I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

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.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

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.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Only the insecure strive for security.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.