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

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

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

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

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

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.

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

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

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

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

The worst men often give the best advice.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

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