I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

For me, education was power.

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.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I never make conscious decisions.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

We all have done something unethical.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

The people in my songs are all me.

Only the insecure strive for security.

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

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

Vanity is but the surface.

The reward of suffering is experience.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

If you would judge, understand.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.