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.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

God always has patience.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

I’m a pretty tough guy, you know. I’m a pretty hard man. I’ve got a lot of compassion, but I don’t waste time with people.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

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

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

God’s desire is that we excel.

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

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Every day I pray about all I do.