Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

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.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Christians are not limited to any church.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

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.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

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.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

God does not play dice.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

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.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.