It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

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

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.