I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‚many mansions‘ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

The Bible says that as Christians we don’t grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven – but we still grieve.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

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.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

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

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Of course you can’t ‚trust‘ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‚trust‘ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

The ways of the Lord are different from the ways of man. Man’s ways remove people from office or business when they grow old or become disabled. But man’s ways are not and never will be the Lord’s ways.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

I don’t believe in icons.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Christians are not limited to any church.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.