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.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

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

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast – which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others – then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

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.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

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.

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 believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

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.

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.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

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

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

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

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

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

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

You just have to have a simple faith.

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

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others – we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we’re going to continue to help.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

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.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

Christians are not limited to any church.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

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

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

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.