Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

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

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Every day I pray about all I do.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

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.

When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

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.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

God has entrusted me with myself.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

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

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

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.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.