I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

You don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

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.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

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.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

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

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

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?‘

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.