I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

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.

To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

The worst men often give the best advice.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

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

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

My message is that God is a good God.

History is written by the victors.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.