Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

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

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

Think of what you are, you Christians. You are God’s children; you are joint heirs with Christ. The ‚many mansions‘ are for you; the palms and harps of the glorified are for you. You have a share in all that Christ has and is and shall be.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

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

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

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

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‚feeling‘ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t evolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

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

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.