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.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

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

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I am happy and I’m single.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

I answer only to God.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

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?

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

My grandpa was a preacher.

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.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

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.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

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

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.