I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn’t have believed it.

The reward of suffering is experience.

You should never give up your inner self.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Never complain. Never explain.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

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

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don’t line up with God’s Word, you’ll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

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

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.