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.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

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

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

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

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

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

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

A true man hates no one.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

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

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

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

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

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

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

Lord, help my poor soul.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.