It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God’s law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

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 love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

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

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.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

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 have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Never take anything for granted.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

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.