If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

My mother insisted that her children read.

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

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God’s people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

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

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

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

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn’t park anywhere near the place.

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

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

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

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.