In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

There is so much that people take for granted.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

God always wants us to be growing.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

All of my writing is God-given.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

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

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

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

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.