I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Rather be dead than cool.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

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.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Men must know their limitations.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

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.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

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

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.