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.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

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.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Bad men are full of repentance.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Act, and God will act.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

The future will be better tomorrow.

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

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

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

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.