I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

I have always believed in God.

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

I’m chasing perfection.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

If you want to live in the fullness of God’s anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

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

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

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.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.