If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

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.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

Each day provides its own gifts.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

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

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I’m a Christian by choice.

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

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

God’s got you in the palm of His hand. You won’t leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you’re going to be here.

God’s desire is that we excel.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

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

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

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

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

You just have to have a simple faith.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

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

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.